The readers can't compensate for the unbearably pompous prose style of this extended parable about corporate politics and strategy.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
An engaging experience.
This audiobook deals with everything from the historic investments that led to world-dominating companies, such as the Chinese technology company Tencent, to predicting the products and services of the future. An audiobook of such complexity requires a narrator who can handle the task, and David Thorpe manages it admirably. Thorpe uses his masterly voice, which sits somewhere between that of a BBC World Service presenter and an easy, relaxed Home Counties accent, to guide listeners through a sea of numbers, acronyms, and terms such as YP, RPS, and market cap. Rather than simply reading, Thorpe presents the work with excitement and enthusiasm, and this enjoyment transfers to the listener.
An engaging experience.Pub Date: Feb. 20, 2026
Duration: 13 hrs
DD ISBN: 9781668103425
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Review Posted Online: March 17, 2026
This audiobook captures how Rupert Murdoch conquered the world of media at the cost of his own family.
The Murdoch family media melodrama pits the aged Rupert and his chosen successor, son Lachlan, against his daughters and more liberal son James—a battle that ends in a court in Reno, Nevada. Cassandra Medcalf narrates in an appropriately serious style, adopting an earnest tone for this sad and solipsistic story. The author has covered the family for much of the past 20 years. He has gathered a trove of information, anecdotes, and records about how right-wing Lachlan triumphed and maintained this media behemoth, which encompasses networks, papers, and publishing houses on three continents.
This audiobook captures how Rupert Murdoch conquered the world of media at the cost of his own family.Pub Date: Feb. 3, 2026
Duration: 6 hrs, 41 mins
DD ISBN: 9781668107508
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Review Posted Online: March 17, 2026
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