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Birth of The Sun newspaper

A new play is based on Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper

New play Ink written by playwright James Graham depicts the influence the media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, and the first editor of The Sun, Larry Lamb, had since the newspapers inception.

Bertie Carvel, who plays Rupert Murdoch, tells Justin Webb that Murdoch and Lamb wanted to take on the establishment “and boy did they succeed". David Yelland, the former Sun Editor says Murdoch and Lamb's "creative ideas amounted to the newspapers commercial success".

(Image: Sun newspapers, credit: Getty Images)

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