When British broadcaster Michael Parkinson asked entrepreneur Robert Maxwell, his guest on Desert Island Discs in 1987, what, at the end of the day was his achievement, Maxwell answered the achievement. is that. I will have left the world a slightly better place by my having lived in it .
Four years later, Maxwell s body was found in the water off the Canary Islands where his yacht Lady Ghislaine was sailing; no one knows whether his death was murder, suicide, or an accident and initially his demise was greeted as a great tragedy - the obituaries and plaudits did indeed suggest that he had left the world a better place by his having lived in it. However, it was soon revealed that his publishing and media empire was built on fraud, lies and swindling, that, among his many transgressions, he had taken the Mirror group pension pot and used it prop up his extravagant lifestyle and his other failing companies and, in fact, he owed £763m, an amount so large it qualified for the Guinness
The author of A Very English Scandal details the media tycoon’s bullying, lies and looting of pension funds in an absorbing profile of the war hero turned rogue
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9:24 AM December 30, 2020
The Hippodrome Circus is helping people to celebrate the end of 2020 with a free streaming of its Christmas Show and NYE countdown from 7pm which they can watch from their sofas.
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For Great Yarmouth s Hippodrome Circus New Year s Eve is usually the biggest night of the year.
Always sold out, it adds a few extra bells and whistles for its whooping audience as it flips and juggles into January.
Moving into Tier 4 on Boxing Day meant cancelling some 30 shows including its New Year s Eve special.
Instead, the circus is coming to your front room with a free streaming of the Christmas Spectacular and a special countdown and party with Jack Jay, Ben Langley and the whole Hippodrome cast.