Episode Details

What can we count on? What do we know is true? In this episode, host Jacke Wilson takes a look at a motley crew of inventive liars who set out to fool the literary world - and often did, at least for a while. From the ancient pseudo-Sappho to the escapee from a debauched convent, from the treasure trove of Shakespeare's lost works to the balloon fraud of Edgar Allan Poe, writers have been generating bogus works for centuries - and an gullible public has gobbled them up and come back for more.

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