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or cello, and piano). Recorded at LSO St
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summer. Boulogne (Symphony No 2 —
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Symphony No 36 in C K425 ”Linz”””); David
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The Wedding
Detectives
Radio 4, 11amGetting married isn’t
something we do very
often, so what could be
more precious than the
photographs that record the
big day? Yet what happens
when those photos go
astray? In this three-part
programme our wedding
detectives Charlotte Sibtain
and Cole Moreton uncover
the stories behind lost
photographs and try to
reunite them with the
families they belong to.
This time they find just two
photographs from the 1959
high-society wedding of Tim
and Sonya Bryant, above,
yet they uncover a trail that
leads to Albert Einstein, the
writer Mary Wesley and
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsThe Billion Dollar Art Hunt
BBC Four
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do wonder why criminals bother
stealing stonkingly valuable old
master paintings. They take all that
risk, but they can’t exactly pop it
on eBay, can they? More often
they’ve just nicked themselves a
20-year problem. They would be
better off robbing a post office. I know
in Italy criminals use stolen art as
leverage to get reduced sentences
when they are banged up for other
crimes, but in The Billion Dollar Art
Hunt we weren’t talking about Italy.
We were talking about Boston andDublin, where the authorities aren’t
fond of doing deals that could benefit
paramilitaries (it was suspected that
the thieves might have IRA links).
John Wilson’s documentary was
entertaining and frustrating, starting
with a tip on the trail of a cache of
paintings — including a Vermeer and
three Rembrandts — stolen 30 years
ago that led us on a wild goose chase.
By the end the situation wasn’t much
clearer. However, the value was less in
the destination (although a money-
shot discovery would have been nice)
and more in the “journey” as we saw
Wilson and the art detective Charley
Hill becoming ever more tetchy. At
one point Hill called his source, a
hard-case Irish criminal who claimed
that the paintings were behind a wall
in a safe house in Dublin. He didn’t
answer. Anticlimax.
“So he’s not around?” said Wilson,
his journalist’s inner klaxon doubtless
screaming: “I need to justify the
camera crew!” “For f***’s sake, I don’t
know,” Hill replied. Lads, lads.
Yet in a way this made for better
TV, unscripted, slightly chaotic
and posing an interesting dilemma.
The US authorities were offering
a $10 million reward and immunity
for the recovery of the paintings,
but does this mean that governments
are effectively creating a market for
stolen masterpieces and an incentive
to steal more?The most interesting scene came in
the closing minutes when Hill’s
original source, a man in the North
East, was interviewed, albeit with his
back to camera. He said that the theft
was nothing to do with the IRA, that
the man who stole the art was a close
friend and that Rembrandt’s The Storm
on the Sea of Galilee was now an inch
shorter because it got damaged as they
cut it from its frame. Call me gullible,
but it sounded kind of plausible.
There was precious little scope for
comedic asides in David Walliams’s
Who Do You Think You Are?. The
tragic story of his great-grandfather
John Boorman, who fought at the
Somme and Passchendaele, reminded
us that surviving the war could
still mean the end of your life as
you knew it. Boorman suffered shell
shock, now known as PTSD.
He was too damaged mentally to be
able to return to family life with his
wife and children. He was certified
insane and spent the next 43 years in
an asylum. It was so sad you could
have almost done with a silly voice
from Walliams to lighten the mood.
Walliams, however, looked grateful
as he discovered that the asylum
seemed benevolent, providing
entertainment and art classes for
patients. Boorman, it turned out, was a
talented artist, painting lovely pastoral
scenes. We can only hope that he had
John Wilson and Charley Hill’s investigations took them to Dublin found a similar peace in his head.Not quite an old masterclass in art theft detection
MATCHLIGHT/BBCCarol
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