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Their company's success helped build a nation.

The company is such a big part of Korea's economy.

But who are the family behind one of the world's tech giants?

They often say, look, we built the nation.

And without us, South Korea as it exists today,

would simply not be here. Inheritance, Samsung, explores the real-life dramas of the Lee family

and their company. They are the equivalent of royalty. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

The 12th of January, 1950, Liverpool. In St George's Hall, it was the first day of a murder

trial. A year before, there'd been an armed robbery at a local cinema. The manager and an

assistant were killed. Now, two local men stood accused. It was a horrific cold-blooded murder where two innocent men were killed for really quite paltry

takings and it captured the imagination of the public.

Amid the gloom and grind of Liverpool's post-war austerity, many ordinary people turned out to watch the trial from the public gallery.

Apparently, people were queuing round the block to get in.

So you can assume that the court was packed to the gunwales.

In those days, anyone convicted of murder would be hanged.

And so people were interested to come to court because I think gruesomely it was a form of entertainment. Down below were rows of men in wigs and gowns ready to begin.

Sitting among them in the front row was a woman.

She was young, she was beautiful.

She would have been dressed in a silk gown, a black coat, a wig, bands.

So to that extent, she would have melded in with the men,

though unlike the men she probably would have been wearing

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