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Smoke and mirrors

People, and elephants, are not always what they seem: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough has a gallery of figures from history who, not always knowingly, managed to dupe others.

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Presenter Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Narrator Alun Withey
Narrator Matthew Sweet
Narrator Sarah Dillon
Narrator Nandini Das
Narrator Naomi Paxton

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