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World Service,29 Feb 2000,28 mins

Checking up on artworks' Nazi connections

Meridian

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Britain's museums have published a list of 350 works of art acquired since the war which might have been looted by the Nazis. How Sotheby's and Christie's have been embroiled in a commission price-fixing scandal in the USA, where the practice is illegal, and the effects this practice has had on the markets. Plus, Théâtre de Complicité interpret Shostakovich in New York; the enduring appeal of Kurt Weill; the death of Israeli singer Ofra Haza.

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