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Bitter Blood: Murdoch v. Murdoch

By: AYR Media
Narrated by: Alan Ruck
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    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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  • Episode 1: You Will Not Have a Son

    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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  • Episode 2: His Father’s Son

    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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Alan Ruck Answers the Audible Questionnaire

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There can only be one successor.

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About the Performer

Alan Ruck is a beloved veteran actor with a career spanning nearly four decades.
He currently stars as ‘Connor Roy’ on HBO's Emmy-winning phenom,  Succession. Among countless honors, Succession is the two-time recipient of the Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Drama Series', an AFI Award for 'TV Program of the Year', Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards for 'Best Drama Series', and a Peabody Award for Entertainment.
Ruck recently appeared in the acclaimed Hulu limited series,  The Dropout, and will next be seen in the Amazon Studios feature film The Burial, co-starring Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx.
He first won the hearts of audiences worldwide with his iconic, breakthrough role as 'Cameron Frye' in  Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which celebrated its 35th Anniversary in 2021. Since then, his countless big-screen credits include  Twister, Speed, Bad Boys, Cheaper by the Dozen, Young Guns II, I Love You Beth Cooper, and  Star Trek Generations, amongst his varied filmography. 
For television, he starred for six seasons on ABC's Emmy-winning comedy series,  Spin City, opposite Michael J. Fox; and memorably recurred on NBC's  Mad About You opposite Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser. His many television credits include acclaimed shows such as Picket Fences, Boston Legal,  The Exorcist,  Hot in Cleveland, Masters of Sex, Bunheads,  One Day at a Time, Scrubs, From the Earth to the Moon, the ESPN miniseries Bronx is Burning, and many more.
Ruck is a trained stage actor, having appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon's  Biloxi Blues with Matthew Broderick prior to Ferris Bueller. He also starred in the first national tour of Mel Brooks's global hit musical  The Producers, and appeared in the acclaimed Off-Broadway play Absurd Person Singular.  Prior to his New York and national stage credits, Ruck studied Theatre at the University of Illinois and later performed at some of Chicago's most revered theater companies, including the Wisdom Bridge Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, and the Apollo Theatre.
Ruck lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mireille, and he has four children.

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Look this was like watching a show. Such an amazing investigative look in one of the most powerful family.

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Great optical debatement

Explain that if you don't hear them you can identify them for some reason on one of the rolls

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It's a really great Audible book in every way!!!

I loved the content. narration, format, and even the music worked perfectly in the background.

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it starts out great but then only reports snippets

just as the media did about Trump this presents manipulated snippets that make it seem that he said the opposite of what he really said. as far as conspiracy stories go, we are now finding they are true. Trump never encouraged people not to get vaccinated. In fact, he was thrilled to take credit for getting us vaccines " faster than anyone else could" and famously claimed that he and Melania got vaccinated as soon as they could. He was correct about masks. To this day the only study was done in 1995 for the flu that showed they did not fare better than no masks. Fauci also claimed they wouldn't work for aerosolized viruses. it was on the CDC website and removed days later. To blame the virus on Trump is outrageous. To this day Hillary claims the 2016 election was stolen. The information at the end of this podcast is presented as truth but we still do not know if it is true.

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very interesting

I've heard of this media mogul family for years but never really understood the role he actually played.

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Informative and Interesting.

Keeps you interested from start to finish. Informative, especially since this is one of the most powerful men of our (and a couple before ours) generation.

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Wow! Fascinating, gripping, addictive

My wife and I consumed this gripping story in days- we couldn’t stop listening, Allan Ruck was the perfect narrator and the story is so well produced. Kudos to the producers for exposing this dark tale of greed, money, backstabbing and power. The real Secession- Highly Recommend.

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Things that make you go hmmmm

Greed and power at it's finest. Some of the opinion analysts voices make it difficult to listen to.

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So much I didn't know.

I absolutely love HBO's Succession and I saw this podcast on the Audible homepage. I had no idea how little I knew about the Murdoch family. The narration is fantastic and each episode was informative, entertaining, shocking, and timely.

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Succession--but for real

This is an amazing podcast. Beautifully presented and mind-blowing if you're a fan of Succession. It's like the Succession writers heard this podcast and then went off and fictionalized it. Bravo!!

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