Last year BBC Radio 4’s Intrigue strand aired a dramatic and well-told story looking at the one of the world’s most-wanted people smugglers and the people who risk everything to cross the Channel.
Their latest series looks at the religious themed Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, which managed to acquire an astonishing 40,000 items for its exhibits in just three years. Then people start asking questions, the government starts investigating and the museum is brought into disrepute tied to fakes and forgeries. It’s a story of biblical proportions (I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist).
“I spend my days scouring the news for stories of fraud, theft and forgery,” says the host and journalist Ben Lewis. “Because behind the most beautiful of objects there often lies the ugliest of crimes.”
