Provenance: The Eyes of Christ

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With over $5 billion of art and antiquities stoleny each year, art is the third largest illicit market in the world after drugs and guns. This is big business, and its perpetrators hardened criminals. often hiding behind the respectable façade of museums and galleries. Scratch the surface and beneath the cracked veneer you’ll find them, barely visible, hidden in the darkness. None understand this better than Ava Bernardi, disgraced former professor at the Courtauld Institute, now turned art detective. But in the murky world of fakers and frauds – where provenance is all – it’s easy to forget who you really are. When suspicious packages from the Middle East are intercepted at Dover by UK Customs, they are found to contain fragments of broken ceramics, leading Ava on a dangerous mission to Syria. By Richard Monks Ava Bernardi ..... Juliet Aubrey Joe ..... Josh Bolt Detective Inspector Okoro ..... Cyril Nri Ellie ..... Cecilia Appiah Al-Khatib ..... Khalid Laith Ibrahim ..... Nabil Elouahabi Hakim ..... Walles Hammond Aya ..... Lara Sawalha Other voices were played by the cast. Production manager, Eleanor Mein Script supervisor, Liis Miik Image, Eva Grange Executive producer, Sara Davies Original music, Ioana Selaru Additional editing, Andreina Gómez and Anastasia Kirillova Sound design and mix, Steve Bond. Directed and produced by Nicolas Jackson An Afonica production for BBC Radio 4