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Narrated by James Marriott
Financial journalists in the late 1980s and early 1990s were blessed with a series of corporate battles that lifted business on to the front page from its traditional position at the back of the newspaper.
Boardrooms, once regarded as the preserve of dull industrialists and their tedious bean counters, became the stage on which monolithic egos, armed with other people’s money, engaged in pitiless combat.
As City editor of The Sunday Times for six years, I had a front-row seat as Lord Hanson tried to take over ICI, Sir Jimmy Goldsmith attempted to break up BAT Industries and Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell went toe to toe in the fight for supremacy between The Sun and the Daily Mirror.