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Speaker 1: Shamed businessman Ron Briley has written an autobiography. It details

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Speaker 1: his life and his business fairs, but not his crimes.

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Speaker 1: Briley was jailed and lost his knighthood after being convicted

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Speaker 1: for possession of child sex abuse material in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Henry Newick is the publisher of the book and is

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Speaker 1: with us.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Henry, you're to Hea Heather, now.

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Speaker 1: Very well, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that, mister, can I correct you? Business is

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Speaker 2: not an autobiography, never has been, and I want to

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Speaker 2: stress that it's not about his life, it's about his business.

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Speaker 2: I just want to make that point. I don't know

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Speaker 2: where people get the idea that it's a biography or

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Speaker 2: an autobiography.

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Speaker 1: Really the Herald, which says in the first thing, the Herald.

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Speaker 2: That's why exactly, and so don't trust everything you read.

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Speaker 1: Good good life advice. Actually, Henry, now, okay, So not

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Speaker 1: an autobiography, just a biography. I'm sure that you can say.

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Speaker 2: It's not even a biography. It's a business history. Let's

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Speaker 2: get this fair. It's a business history.

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Speaker 1: So it's not even about his life. It's just about

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Speaker 1: his business.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not about his life. There's no mention of

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Speaker 2: his life.

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Speaker 1: It's getting a lot of things. I'm not going to lie.

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Speaker 2: No, let carry on.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So anyway, I'm sure that you considered before you

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Speaker 1: decided to publish the book that there would be some

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Speaker 1: blowback given what he's been up to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, yeah, I consider that.

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Speaker 1: Why did you decide to go ahead with it?

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Speaker 2: Because he's perfectly entitled. Anybody's entitled to write about whatever

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Speaker 2: they want to write about. Briley years ago started writing

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Speaker 2: The History of Briley Investments, and it's come to fruition.

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Speaker 2: I was asked if i'd be interested in publishing, and

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Speaker 2: I said yes, I would. I'd be quite happy to publish,

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Speaker 2: probably because no traditional publisher would touch it. But then

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Speaker 2: no traditional publisher touches many authors because it's so difficult

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Speaker 2: to get published in these days. So that's why I

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Speaker 2: took the book on. So did you as a business story?

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Speaker 2: In my backgrounds in business publishing too? Right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So did you do it because you find the

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Speaker 1: subject interesting or did you do it on a matter

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Speaker 1: of principle?

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Speaker 2: I did it on a matter of principle, and also

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Speaker 2: because I found the subject interesting.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that the value of something like this

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Speaker 1: is that it provides I don't know, some source material

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Speaker 1: for a biography later on.

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Speaker 2: Not particularly unless one wants to focus on the business.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Wrong's biography has already been written some years

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Speaker 2: ago in a two thousand I think by Evan von Dongen.

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Speaker 2: That's a biography. This was not a biograph. This was

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Speaker 2: a business book.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I was going to ask you if he

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Speaker 1: should have detailed his convictions. But obviously if it's just

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Speaker 1: about his business, that's kind of you know, not really

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Speaker 1: really is.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's where people get under a misapprehension.

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Speaker 1: The judgment Okay, do you expect I mean, I see,

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Speaker 1: you're only doing a run of two and a half thousand.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't seem like a lot. Not going to be

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Speaker 1: a huge uptake in this, is there?

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Speaker 2: Well, at two and a half thousand, I thought, in

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Speaker 2: fact that our primary audiences are going to be people

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Speaker 2: who are shareholders, investors and bridies in the eighties. Now,

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Speaker 2: given that it was in the nineteen seventies and eighties,

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Speaker 2: probably three quarters that them are dead now anyway, So

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Speaker 2: you know, the market is primarily people who had a

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Speaker 2: vested interest in Bridley's at that time. We're not catering

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Speaker 2: for today's business people who wouldn't many cases have never

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Speaker 2: heard of bride.

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Speaker 1: So Henry, has he even if it's not an autobiography

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Speaker 1: or a biography written this himself.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was written by himself back of it in

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Speaker 2: the early ten thousands.

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Speaker 1: And so it hasn't been updated subsequently.

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Speaker 2: No, it runs through there's a little bit of finishing

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Speaker 2: off in the late towards twenty twenty. Just saying that

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Speaker 2: the company was finally wound up in Malaysia. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he wasn't involved in the company at all of that stage.

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Speaker 2: It hadn't been involved since the nineteen nineties.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the reason I'm asking about that is because

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Speaker 1: obviously there were potentially fresh charges that were going to

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Speaker 1: be laid. They were not laid because he has a

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Speaker 1: form of dementia.

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Speaker 2: That's correct now, I think I believe that's been certified

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Speaker 2: by three doctors in Australia and so, No, the manuscript

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Speaker 2: was written a long time ago and we've just brought

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Speaker 2: it to fruition.

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Speaker 1: Henry, it's been good to talk to you and I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us

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Speaker 1: about it. That's Henry Newick, who is publishing the book

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Speaker 1: that Ron Briley has written about his business life. For

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