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World Service,01 Jan 1999,28 mins

How do art thieves get away with it?

Meridian

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120 Rembrandt paintings are missing. Some 350 Picassos are in the hands of thieves. So how are they able to sell such famous paintings? Interpol's Penny Stevenson and the Art Register's Sarah Jackson discuss. Also on the programme: the controversial American TV series The PJs, the Korean film industry quota system, the late poet Ted Hughes wins the Whitbread Book Of The Year prize with Birthday Letters and Shakespeare in Love smashes British box office.

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