Preview: The forgers who faked a fortune

Today, we want to give you a little taste of a new series we're launching, the second season of History's Greatest Scandals. In it, I'll be uncovering the secrets of the Georgian era with Professor Hannah Gregg. We'll be exposing illicit liaisons, meeting cross-dressing celebrity spies, and getting involved in some high-stakes gambling, as we search out some of the most salacious stories of the day and explore what they can reveal about the Georgian age. So here's a taster of the first episode where we're following on the trail of some very canny forgers. And if you enjoy this, you can find the whole episode and the rest of the series by searching for history's greatest scandals wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is a History Extra production. Ellie, do you like a scammer story? Well, okay, it's not fashionable, but I have to admit I do, and I feel like there's so many of them around these days, podcasts, documentaries. Usually these days they're about, you know, fake billionaires or fake tech entrepreneurs, though, aren't they?

They are, but our fascination with scammers has a quite a long history and we can find some interesting cases in the Georgian period. And they were just as intrigued. by real-life scams as we are, as we're going to discuss today. So today's case is a sensational courtroom drama featuring a whole gang of untrustworthy characters. So it includes a seemingly genteel lady, but she has a secret past, possibly, an apothecary who is

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