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The Missing Madonna - No, Madonna has not gone missing. You have not been left out of the celebrity news loop this week. 

Rather, this new BBC Scotland podcast tells the intriguing story of The Madonna of the Yarnwinder, one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most notable paintings, and how it being swiped from a Scottish castle in 2003 resulted in it becoming Scotland’s biggest ever art heist. Without being too spoilerific, the story about retrieving the painting back involved a partnership between two private investigators, with the daughter of one of the investigators, Olivia Graham, leading this new series.

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