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World Service,06 Oct 2004,22 mins

Italy's art crime wave

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Discussing art forgeries and smuggling with former art smuggler Michel Van Rijn. The programme visits Italy with Van Rijin. Italy holds more than half the world's cultural treasures, but thousands of these are smuggled out of the country every year and many are also sold in the country's flea markets. Presenter Ed Butler also asks Italians what they think.

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