Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics

When war split Tasoula's home country of Cyprus in two in 1974 she had to leave home, never to return. Years later, while living in the Netherlands she was approached by a shady art dealer with news that shook her to the core: artefacts sacred to her Greek Orthodox faith had been stolen, hammered out from church walls and were now being sold on the black market. Tasoula then poured everything into righting this wrong and vowed to bring them back. She would have to plumb the depths of the criminal underworld and hatch an elaborate sting operation to catch the mastermind behind it all.

Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Edgar Maddicott Sound Design: Joe Munday Editor: Harry Graham

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.5	I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds.
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0:28.3	and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its audience.
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0:38.5	I was one of many people that were victims who was used by somebody who was psychopathic.
0:44.7	Let's tell this story.
0:46.6	World of Secrets, Season 2, The Disciples.
0:50.4	Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:59.4	Music Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Michelle started shouting, move, move, move.
1:03.0	And that's when the German police got into the apartment of Eidyn Dickman.
1:08.1	It was crazy because the police were saying there is nothing here.
1:13.8	Michelle was kicking the chairs and the tables and he was screaming.
1:20.8	They're there.
1:21.4	I'm going to go there and show you.
1:23.4	They are there.
1:25.4	Within those five minutes,
1:27.8	Eid and Dickman disappeared the antiquities.
1:37.4	This is Lives Less Ordinary,
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