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Bitter Blood: Murdoch v. Murdoch

By: AYR Media
Narrated by: Alan Ruck
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Who will win the battle of succession?

Rupert Murdoch is known as the media magnate who, over the course of 70 years, turned a small family newspaper company into the most powerful conservative media empire in history. With a net worth of almost $18 billion, he is not only one of the richest and most influential people on the planet, but his vast media empire has influenced governments and changed the course of history.

Murdoch has been married four times and has fathered six children. He has exhibited a penchant for pitting his three middle children, Lachlan, James, and Elizabeth, against each other in lengthy competitions to become his favorite, and, therefore, heir to his businesses.

In 2017, Murdoch announced to his children the unthinkable: that he’d be selling the biggest part of his media dynasty, 20th Century Fox. But only one of them could take the reins. Immediately, his children go to war, vying against each other for both their father's approval and his empire. The public and private feuds play out like Shakespearean tragedies, as the Murdoch family turns on one another in private and public displays of nepotism, sibling rivalry, entitlement, and international scandals.

Narrated by Succession’s Alan Ruck, Bitter Blood Season 2: Murdoch v. Murdoch is a look at the inner workings of this famous family, told through exclusive interviews with key insiders, including employees, Murdoch biographers, and journalists. This is the tale of a family that battles for wealth and power at all costs, even if that means battling against each other until the bitter end.

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  • Trailer
    Mar 27 2023

    Who will win the battle of succession?

    Rupert Murdoch is known as the media magnate who, over the course of 70 years, turned a small family newspaper company into the most powerful conservative media empire in history. With a net worth of almost $18 billion, he is not only one of the richest and most influential people on the planet, but his vast media empire has influenced governments and changed the course of history.

    Murdoch has been married four times and has fathered six children. He has exhibited a penchant for pitting his three middle children, Lachlan, James, and Elizabeth, against each other in lengthy competitions to become his favorite, and, therefore, heir to his businesses.

    In 2017, Murdoch announced to his children the unthinkable: that he’d be selling the biggest part of his media dynasty, 20th Century Fox. But only one of them could take the reins. Immediately, his children go to war, vying against each other for both their father's approval and his empire. The public and private feuds play out like Shakespearean tragedies, as the Murdoch family turns on one another in private and public displays of nepotism, sibling rivalry, entitlement, and international scandals.

    Narrated by Succession’s Alan Ruck, Bitter Blood Season 2: Murdoch v. Murdoch is a look at the inner workings of this famous family, told through exclusive interviews with key insiders, including employees, Murdoch biographers, and journalists. This is the tale of a family that battles for wealth and power at all costs, even if that means battling against each other until the bitter end.

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    1 min
  • Episode 1: You Will Not Have a Son
    Apr 6 2023

    Rupert Murdoch’s proposed sale of Fox’s entertainment properties to Disney causes friction between his children--Lachlan, James and Elisabeth--and raises new questions of who will become successor to the media mogul’s global empire.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 2: His Father’s Son
    Apr 6 2023

    The son of an ambitious and well-connected Australian newspaperman, a young Rupert Murdoch sets out to build a massive media empire with greater reach and influence than his father ever dreamed possible, conquering first Australia, then the UK and the United States, and finally, the world.

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    41 mins
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Ofc most about Ruoert Murdoch has been outed, yet this series still contained ilsome detailed information that I was not familiar with yet.

Interesting details

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Hugely enjoyed this entire series. Great touch to have Alan Rick narrate but even without this, you still have an outstanding script, audio contributions and judicious use of archive clips. An outstanding achievement.

Great job - the definitive podcast

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Learnt a lot from this podcast and found it easy to listen to and follow. Well done.
Better than some recent books on the same subject.

Informative and well done

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This was ok. I knew nothing about Rupert Murdoch and his family. Some was really interesting. In the U.K. Fox News is not a big deal at all. Interesting to read how they covered Trump and the accusations of election rigging etc

The story of the feuding kids was repetitive and that whole side of things could have been covered much more succinctly

It passed a few hours on a long journey but was nothing earth shattering

Repetitive

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really enjoyed this podcast. Very well written and narrated. anymore like this on audible

very enjoyable

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This series is just a confirmation of what we already knew about this manipulative,greedy family. All they have is money!

Cherry on the icing is that they just paid off Dominion,so they admitted wrongdoing!

Very good investigative journalism!

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Good narrative in a compelling listen. It gives an informative look into this family and the inner workings of this mogul.

Really interesting subject

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Impossible to download despite payment.
Huge UX Error, that proves as frustrating as living in a world dominated by murdoch media

Audible app only serves up samples

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Yet another Podcast RUINED by profoundly irritating background music! WHY?! It adds NOTHING to the story, and is completely unnecessary.

Exasperating listen

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None of this is original information, it is pretty much a rehash of Dynasties program in Australia. It uses interviews from this over and over and over and over making it really irritating to listen to. I had to stop halfway through ep 3 for my own sanity

Repeats the same program over and over

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