Weekend extra: ROBERT MAXWELL’s cash from chaos

<p>Bully, liar, tyrant, fantasist, thief on a monumental scale –&nbsp;just ask the Mirror pensioners – and narcissist of an even greater magnitude, <strong>Robert Maxwell</strong> was a villain for whom the term “disgraced newspaper tycoon” seems pitifully small. Yet as former Evening Standard and Telegraph journalist John Preston’s new book <a href="https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/biography/fall-the-mystery-of-robert-maxwell,john-preston-9780241388679" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Fall: The Mystery Of Robert Maxwell</em></a> shows, the horror of Maxwell’s early life explains (if not excuses) the monster he became. How did Maxwell fool, and then fleece, the publishing world?&nbsp;</p><ul><li>“<em>If you worked in Fleet Street in the 80s there was no escaping Maxwell…”</em></li><li><em>“You have to seen Maxwell through the prism of what happened to his family in the Holocaust. There was enormous rage and guilt there.”</em></li><li><em>“Robert Maxwell was gripped by a simultaneous desire to sit at the top table, and also to kill everyone else at that top table.”</em></li><li><em>“Maxwell was both ridiculed and feared, often by the same people.”</em></li></ul><p><em>Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>