A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jim is deep undercover in North Korea — but will he find proof of illegal weapons deals...

He'd been sent to the isolated country by a documentary film-maker called Mads Brugger, to pose as a fake investor interested in arms. Jim, Mads and the team had spent years infiltrating a North Korean network in Europe, but now they were on North Korean turf the risks were bigger than ever. Jim is treated like a king, but no weapons deals emerge, until suddenly he's driven out of town and taken down into a mysterious basement.

Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Harry Graham Editor: Munazza Khan Sound design: Joel Cox

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories
0:24.4	of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.9	How do you pretend to be super rich?
0:33.4	I mean, how does a rich person
0:35.7	walk around the world in your eyes?
0:38.4	I mean, you just have to think about being a big asshole.
0:41.1	No.
0:45.4	No.
0:49.1	No, it doesn't have to be that you have to be rude or anything,
0:54.1	but you just have to come in and take a control of the room.
1:00.2	It's Emily Webb here with Lives Less Ordinary,
1:03.6	an original podcast from the BBC World Service.
1:07.1	Now, you are about to be thrown into a world of deception,
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