BFC: INK

In 1969, rising media tycoon Rupert Murdoch acquired the ailing daily newspaper The Sun (at the time a minor title), and hired a tough Yorkshire newspaperman, Larry Lamb, who turned the paper into Britain’s most influential tabloid. As well as the story of The Sun’s rise to fame, there is a story-within-a-story: in 1969, the wife of a Murdoch executive was kidnapped by people who thought she was Murdoch’s wife, Anna. It was a chaotic and incompetent abduction which resulted in the death of the victim, whose body was never found. True to form, The Sun ran sensationalist stories about the kidnapping too.