Encore: The Missing Mona Lisa

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

True Crime, Comedy

4.3 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We’re travelling back through the MTW archives to bring you Iain’s episode about the OTHER Louvre heist.

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at lauraandiain@bbc.co.uk

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.2	Marianne has not the heart to tell Eleanor how worried she is by the lack of poetry in Edward's soul.
0:14.7	Tamzing Greg brings Jane Austen's work to life with pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility.
0:20.6	Reports soon follow that Mr Bingley is very agreeable.
0:24.4	And Julie Andrews narrates a new series, Jane Austen Stories.
0:28.9	You take delight in vexing me.
0:30.9	You have no compassion on my poor nerves.
0:33.7	Celebrate Jane Austen.
0:35.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:55.1	Hi guys. I hope you're all having a wonderful festive period and looking forward to the big day. We're currently on a break, stuffing ourselves with Brussels sprouts. Well, I'm doing Russell Sprouts. I ho hope you've had a great time at Christmas. That's the best you can do? Is that the best you can do?
0:56.0	No, I don't.
0:56.8	Wait, wait, wait.
0:57.5	I can do better than that.
0:57.8	Come on.
1:02.5	What have you got? No way you're having a bad day today because it's Christmas.
1:02.6	Think of all those Christmas crackers with those terrible poems we've got.
1:05.5	What do you do if you're trying to improve yourself over Christmas?
1:09.3	You read an elf help help book.
1:13.6	A self-elf.
1:15.0	Self-elf.
1:15.9	Self-elf.
1:16.8	Elf.
	...

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