sole owner of 20th century fox. wasn t one of his children to succeed him, but he doesn t say when, who and how. it s going to have to be fought out between them. two minutes to the official start of the race. there are the boats. the race in australia, it s a big deal. it s a kind of their super bowl. lachlan had done a lot of sailing and he eagerly signed up for the 98 race. 54th race. he sailed onboard the boat sayonara. up on the high side there, getting out. it was a beautiful day. and not long after the race began there was a line of clouds. like a black wall. there were wind gusts of close to 100 miles per hour. and the waves were enormous. is there anything you fear in life? you always worry, i think, about the unexpected that could happen. it could bring all this tumbling down. the boats would head into the waves and they d stort of climb up, and then they d go launching off the top of the wave and hurtling down. certainly one has to remain
there s a story that goes when god created the world, he took all the leftover bits and wanted to make something beautiful with them. so he made sardinia. and there s something to that. sardinia is really an island of bits and pieces in the best possible way. each local community is like an island of its own with widely varying geography, languages. you also caught lobster? yes. and food. wow. put together, you get a region with a ferocious independent streak. women have the power here. cheers. a little bit italian and a little bit something else entirely. man, it s incredible. i m stanley tucci. i m fascinated by my italian heritage so i m travelling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. oh, he s between my legs. sardinia is italy s wild west. [bleep] it! and although they respect tradition, things here are never dull. argh! out here, nothing stands in the way of t
to this empire. early on, rupert develops a machiavellian approach to the newspaper business. it s about putting your rivals under. and mr maxwell certainly has lost. and, rupert discovered if you start turning the dial down market, ratings go up. sex and murder and blood, and mayhem. he bought up 40% of the circulation of newspapers in england. this is his moment to expand. post here! get your post here. new york post. murdoch put his stamp on the city of new york. here i am. you d better pay some attention. i m going to have one hell of an impact. as usual, we were drinking one night, the producers, the reporters and me. we always gathered. the first concrete block was removed by east german workers. and we hear the berlin wall is coming down. what? we ve got to go. what? a current affair s got to go to the wall? oh yeah. so we made a few calls. and we commandeered the gulfstream jet. and about eight or nine of us got on that jet at midnight and flew t
no wonder espresso was invented here. i think i might need a few of these just to keep up with the rhythm of the city. but do they bring as much to the italian table as they do to the country s economy? i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides. i am traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of the country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. that s delicious. here in milan, the menu is nothing like you expect. up here in the north, forget about pasta and pizza. oh, my god. that s so beautiful. this is the land of rice and polenta. polenta, in ancient time, it was like the bread. there is not even a tomato in sight. this is amazing. and olive oil plays second fiddle to butter. butter? jesus, whoa, jesus. warning, irresponsible amounts of butter were used in the making of this program. i hate to say it, but we need more butter. milan is the second biggest city in italy, it s the capital of lombardy, the region of the north pe