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2007-2008

In Search of the Wreckers

Duration: 48 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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In January 2007, the MSC Napoli ran aground, spilling its cargo on Branscombe beach in Devon. The public were delighted, but the authorities were determined to police opportunists. Looters of the Napoli were reviving a centuries' old tradition: 'wrecking'. Author Bella Bathurst discovers the social history of a national crime. Show less

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