Bidders for Times newspaper

Title

Bidders for Times newspaper

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

31 Dec 1980

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:04:55

Description

Report on the bidders for the purchase of The Times newspaper including allegedly Robert Maxwell, James Goldsmith, Tiny Rowlands, and a group set up by Times journalists led by William Rees-Mogg. Includes interview with William Rees-Mogg; Jake Ecclestone(?), NUJ; Harold Evans, Sunday Times editor. Male reporter not identified (poss. John Perkins).

Contributors

Harold Evans; William Rees-Mogg; John Perkins?; Jake Ecclestone(?)

Keywords

Companies; Newspapers; The Times; Sunday Times; James Goldsmith; Journalists; Robert Maxwell; Sales; William Rees-Mogg; Tiny Rowlands

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