Who Wants to Scam a Millionaire

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Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Charles and Diana Ingram are an average British couple with a love of pub quizzes who set out to appear on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But when Charles wins the big prize, the producers point to a coughing fit to claim he cheated his way to the win. The public outcry, and criminal trial, ruined the Ingrams for good. And now, decades later, some wonder if maybe the Ingrams are the ones who got conned.

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0:00.0	Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to scam
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0:04.6	Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery App or Apple Podcasts.
0:07.6	A note to our listeners, this episode includes a brief reference
0:11.6	to thoughts of self-harm.
0:13.0	Please listen with care.
0:15.0	Satchi, do you think there's a game show you'd be really good at?
0:24.4	Yeah, I think I would be really good at match game,
0:28.1	especially if they couldn't see my face.
0:30.4	Yeah, I mean, that's a bit of a weird one because I feel like there aren't really any right answers to that.
0:35.0	You're just trying to guess about another person.
0:37.0	Yeah, and I would be so good at that and I would make them fall in love with me.
0:40.0	And then I would vanish.
0:42.0	Okay, well, mine was something normal like Wheel of Fortune because I've stayed home so many times to watch it, you know?
0:49.0	Well, this story is about a game show where there definitely are right answers, and it's about
0:55.2	what people will do to win a way bigger prize than a bad date, a whole million dollars. It's September 10th, 2001. At a television studio outside of London, Charles Ingram
1:09.0	is living through one of the most stressful moments of his life.
1:15.4	Charles is a 38 year old army major with a round face, a blonde widow's peak,
1:18.0	and a distinctive British pastiness.
1:20.8	He's sitting in the center of a sound stage with a studio audience surrounding him in a
1:25.2	colosium-like ring. Charles is sweating through one of the most hideous polo shirts
1:30.3	to ever appear on television.
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