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Program: Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant

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Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat thought to be lost at sea?

Throughout the 1870s, this question attracted global attention, and was the subject of one of the longest, most sensational court cases Britain had ever seen. 

Guests: 

Robyn Annear (author) The Man Who Lost Himself: The Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant

Zadie Smith (author) The Fraud

Claire Campbell (former) Wagga Wagga head librarian and Tichborne aficionado

Credits: 

  • Narrator - Richard Roxburgh
  • Producer - Lyn Gallacher
  • Sound engineer - Angie Grant
  • Music - Matthew Crawford
  • Artwork - Lachlan Conn

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Wagga Wagga, Crime, Historians

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