The recently convicted Greenhalgh family, who forged an Amarna statue which was purchased by Bolton Museum, are apparently being given TV time on the UK's Channel 4 tomorrow evening. I won't be at home tomorrow and I've never worked out how to use the DVD recorder so if anyone watches it please let me know how it turns out.
A compulsive forger duped the art world into buying a string of realistic fake masterpieces because he feared he would never be recognised as an artist in his own right.
Shaun Greenhalgh will be seen for the first time explaining why he decided to con the art world in a TV documentary to be screened on Thursday.
Channel 4's Cutting Edge programme, called The Artful Codgers, tells the story of the Greenhalgh family from Bromley Cross, who tricked Bolton Museum into spending £440,000 on a fake ancient Egyptian statue in 2003.
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