Adelaide Festival: Moguls and the Media with Paddy Manning

The TV series Succession has been appointment viewing and frequent comparisons have been drawn between the fictional Roy media empire and the real Murdoch family. Paddy Manning’s new book, The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch, could well provide background material for a future season in which the ageing, tyrannical mogul finally ’pops his clogs’. With Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chaired the 2021 senate inquiry into media diversity, Manning will take us inside the global media empire that Lachlan Murdoch is likely to inherit.