David Wilson's Crime Files: Scams & Scandals

BBC Scotland

11:15 PM to 11:45 PM

Tuesday 28 October

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The criminologist investigates fraud and forgery in art and literature, revealing how fake Robert Burns manuscripts produced by Victorian forger Alexander Smith are still causing problems for collectors. David gets a picture of art fraud through history from art expert and auctioneer James Bruce, who explains how counterfeit art can be traced right back to ancient Greece and that the National Gallery of Scotland was once conned into buying a fake Botticelli