Looting
Business Daily. Looted: the risks of buying ancient history. Audio, 17 minutes
We look into a reported rise in the looting and laundering of ancient relics
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
What in the World. Kenya’s Gen Z protests and claims of police brutality. Audio, 11 minutes
President William Ruto has ordered police to shoot looting protesters in the legs
- AttributionBBC World Service
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- Posted7 August 2024
In Our Time. The Sack of Rome 1527. Audio, 47 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Holy Roman Emperor's army's notorious attack on Romans
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Arts & Ideas. Holocaust history. Audio, 45 minutes
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan 27) Anne McElvoy hears testimony and new research
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- Posted24 January 2024
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- Posted11 January 2024
Lives Less Ordinary. Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2. Audio, 30 minutes
Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Lives Less Ordinary. Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1. Audio, 38 minutes
Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted18 September 2022
The Documentary Podcast. Cambodia: Returning the gods. Audio, 26 minutes
Cambodia wants its gods - stolen statues - returned from western museums and collectors
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- Posted5 March 2022
Gilgamesh tablet: US to hand back 3,600-year-old artefact to Iraq. Newshour. Audio, 00:03:43
The text is part of a Sumerian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh and was looted in 1991
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted22 September 2021
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- Posted13 July 2021
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- Posted10 August 2020
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- Posted23 June 2020
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- Posted2 May 2019
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- Posted9 August 2018
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- Posted20 March 2018
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- Posted14 March 2018
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- Posted18 January 2017
Museum of Lost Objects. Looted Sumerian Seal, Baghdad. Audio, 15 minutes
In search of a Sumerian goddess, and the pillaging of Iraq's most important museum
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Whisky Galore! Video, 91 minutes
In 1943, disaster strikes on a remote Hebridean island when they run out of whisky.
- AttributionBBC Two
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Assignment. ISIS: Looting for Terror. Audio, 28 minutes
Are groups such as Islamic State profiting from the global trade in illicit antiquities?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
