Jul 31, 2026 · 48 min · 13 segments
Dinner with Elizabeth Taylor! Chatting with Robert De Niro! Getting stuck in a lift with Bryan Adams! Unexpectedly, joining the rock band Hawkwind! It's all in a day's work for legendary broadcaster…
Matthew WrightGuest
It's a sort of history of the... of the tabloids from Murdoch's entry in the market in the mid 60s.
And one of the observations in the book is that throughout the hardcore slavish support of Thatcher, the majority of journalists working on the paper were said to hold left of centre views.
Many people enter journalism, or did, because they had some desire to get the truth out there.
And I'm not sure many people, maybe Piers Morgan accepted, entered journalism just to make money or climb up some kind of ladder.
So the papers, basically the staff move between the mirror and the sun all the time.
I suppose it's interesting because The Sun was in the 60s and early 70s quite left wing.
No, it was left wing under Murdoch and then he turned it right wing and then he went left wing for Tony Blair.
I think he's always publicly backed the winner up until Keir Starmer, I think.
We had so many prime ministers that never had elections, so you didn't have to back the winner because there wasn't a competition.
It's a sort of history of the... of the tabloids from Murdoch's entry in the market in the mid 60s.
And one of the observations in the book is that throughout the hardcore slavish support of Thatcher, the majority of journalists working on the paper were said to hold left of centre views.
Many people enter journalism, or did, because they had some desire to get the truth out there.
And I'm not sure many people, maybe Piers Morgan accepted, entered journalism just to make money or climb up some kind of ladder.
So the papers, basically the staff move between the mirror and the sun all the time.
I suppose it's interesting because The Sun was in the 60s and early 70s quite left wing.
No, it was left wing under Murdoch and then he turned it right wing and then he went left wing for Tony Blair.
I think he's always publicly backed the winner up until Keir Starmer, I think.
We had so many prime ministers that never had elections, so you didn't have to back the winner because there wasn't a competition.
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