Shadow World

By BBC Radio 4

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The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.

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May 27, 2024 Thief at the British Museum: 2. White Paper Dots
A mysterious seller appears with a seemingly endless supply of ancient, precious gems at bargain prices. Collector and dealer Ittai Gradel snaps them up. But then a strange series of events starts to unfold.
From his home in rural Denmark, Ittai becomes suspicious about what is happening hundreds of miles away at the heart of the British Museum.
Presenter: Katie Razzall
Producers: Darin Graham, Ben Henderson and Larissa Kennelly
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Mix and sound design: James Beard
Composer: Jenny Plant
Exec-producer: Joe Kent
Investigations Editor: Ed Campbell
Series Editor: Matt Willis
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
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17min
May 27, 2024 Thief at the British Museum: 1. The Man with the Cardboard Box
People have called Dr Ittai Gradel a kind of Sherlock Holmes, if Holmes were Danish and obsessed with gems. He’s an antiquities dealer with an eye for stolen goods who will help unlock the mystery at the heart of this story.
When Katie meets him in London, he’s got something to show her - two ancient gemstones he believes belong to the British Museum.
But this whodunnit begins more than a decade ago as a man with a cardboard box wanders into an antiques market. He has some valuable treasure to sell.
Presenter: Katie Razzall
Producers: Darin Graham, Ben Henderson and Larissa Kennelly
Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Mix and sound design : James Beard
Composer: Jenny Plant
Exec-producer: Joe Kent
Investigations Editor: Ed Campbell
Series Editor: Matt Willis
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
Archive: Sky News Australia
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15min
May 20, 2024 Thief at the British Museum: Trailer
The inside story of how ancient treasures disappeared from one of the world’s most famous museums. And how one man believes he uncovered a thief.
BBC Culture Editor Katie Razzall reveals how a Danish gem dealer almost single-handedly identified a man he believes had been stealing precious artefacts from inside the British Museum. She looks at why thefts went unnoticed for so long.
What begins as a whodunnit turns into a global treasure hunt as Katie tries to track down the missing gems.
Archive: Sky News Australia
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3min

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How many episodes does Shadow World have?

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