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Based on the bizarre life of Sir Edmund Backhouse, a confidence trickster of the Victorian age who pulled off a string of audacious swindles against entire nations, Chinese Whispers is a highly-comic look at the notorious exploits of a man who claimed to have salacious affairs with everyone from Oscar Wilde to the Empress Dowager Cixi of China. Amongst his stings, Backhouse tricked the British Government over an arms deal, John Brown's Shipyard over a large quantity of battleships and the American Banknote Company regarding an order for printing one hundred million banknotes. Co-author Jeremy Cantwell, scholar and ex-BBC librarian, had access to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in order to research the story. Between 1913 and 1923 the Bodleian was in receipt of over eight tons of Chinese manuscripts from Sir Edmund in an attempt by him to receive a professorship in return, however it is widely believed the documents were forgeries by Backhouse, much like the rest of his fantastic life.T1627292445Presented byNot Backhouse. Director Ian Lindsay. | |
| 13 Jul 17 to 22 Jul 17 | Greenwich Theatre, Outer London :: V308 listing details L01540543721 |
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