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British Scandal

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Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1865, and butcher Arthur Orton is living in poverty in Australia. Then he hears about a reward for information on England’s ninth richest nobleman, Sir Roger Tichborne, who's been missing for several years. So Arthur comes up with an audacious plan. All he has to do is fool the man’s entire family. How hard can it be?

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0:00.0	Oh my God, Matt, the Christmas party this year is going to be so great.
0:09.5	Yeah, I mean, the place it's at, the drinks cost a fortune, so probably only be able to have one or two drinks.
0:16.0	Yeah, but apart from that.
0:18.3	Yeah, I mean, only HR are going.
0:21.0	None of our mates are going to be there.
0:22.1	So you're going to be talking about human resources all night.
0:25.0	Ah.
0:26.2	But I mean, apart from who's going and how expensive the drinks are,
0:30.0	it's going to be a rager.
0:31.5	Maybe.
0:32.0	I mean, if the venue's still open after what happened last night,
0:34.3	you probably saw the news this morning.
0:35.5	The police have been there until the early hours. But yeah, if they find whoever did it and they open the venue, yeah.
0:45.2	Right. I kind of didn't really know any of that. So should I just RSVP for us both and just say,
0:49.7	we can't make it? What? No, I'm going. This is already the best Christmas party I've ever been invited to.
0:56.9	April 1854, the Caribbean Sea. Roger Titchbourne strides along the upper deck of the large wooden
1:04.5	brig, La Bella, reading a letter from his mother. He strokes his thin moustache, takes a swig from his bottle of rum and lights a
1:13.1	cigarette. Then he balls up the letter and throws it overboard. At 25, he won't be emotionally
1:20.3	blackmailed into coming home. He will travel on to Jamaica as planned. Pleased with his decision,
1:28.6	he picks up his rifle,
1:32.9	points it skywards towards a large brown booby flying overhead.
1:34.5	A large brown booby?
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