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In 2001 a tablet was offered for sale to the Israel Museum which appeared to come from the Temple of Solomon. Scholars and scientists declared it genuine, but an official investigation revealed that the...
The spiralling prices paid for antiquities have boosted the quantity, range and sophistication of fakes. As knowledge of the appropriate materials and techniques used to make the genuine objects become more...
Mini-series adapted from the non-fiction book by Robert Harris about the Hitler Diaries hoax of the 1980s, starring Jonathan Pryce, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker, Alexei Sayle and Barry Humphries as Rupert Murdoch.
Wartime thriller starring George Sanders in which he plays a forger who steals Richard Burbage’s personal copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet from a library and then sells copies of it to collectors through an...
Detective film. Nick Torrent (Morgan) owns a scrap of a priceless Shakespeare manuscript and wants to sell it; but then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane (Montgomery) is a rare book...
Radio drama by Martyn Wade. Based on a true story, William Ireland was an unhappy child, born in the 18th century, who wanted to impress his brutal father. He wrote, and then claimed to have discovered,...
Radio drama by Arthur Miller about the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland. Ireland’s ghost narrates the story.
Two-part radio series in which Jonathan Bate examines how the works of Shakespeare and Mozart have been forged. Part 1 discusses Shakespeare. Since Shakespeare’s death his works have been given alleged...
Radio play by Kenneth Bird about the story of William Ireland, whose Shakespeare forgeries caused a considerable stir in literary circles at the end of the 18th century.
Radio play written by Melissa Murray and directed for broadcasting by Marc Beeby. In 1796, Richard Sheridan (Lorcan Cranitch), playwright and owner of the Drury Lane theatre stages a ‘lost’ Shakespeare...
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