Could you fake your death and get away with it? In this episode, we look at fake identities, from people who've tried to fake their own deaths to an audacious wine fraudster who made millions as he sold new wine in old bottles.
We speak to a private investigator who proves that people are, in fact alive, and a wine merchant who decided to act like an FBI agent in his quest to stake out a man who was making fake bottles of his wine. And in the process, we see glimpses of how identities are harder to forge in the 21st century.
Guests in this episode: Steven Rambam, private investigator; Laurent Ponsot, master winemaker; Peter Hellman, author of In Vino Duplicitas; and two eminent historians, Helen Watt and Paul Dryburgh.
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Space Wars
Loot
Corruptible: Audiobook Excerpt
Does Power Corrupt?
War Criminal or Victim?
Walk the Plank
The Invisible Hook
Golden Handcuffs
Hitman for Hire
Do Not Disturb
Click Here To Kill Everybody
The Shell Game
The Billion Dollar Shack
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Biological Weapons
Revolutions
Pandemics
Catastrophic Miscalculation
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