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    Meet the TV writer reconsidering modern Britain's 'beautifully ludicrous' history

    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Jun 02, 2020 5 minutes

    James Graham vividly recalls sitting down with his college housemates to watch "Millionaire: A Major Fraud," a 2003 documentary about a tabloid scandal that had captivated all of the United Kingdom. In the special, provocateur Martin Bashir built the case against Charles and Diana Ingram, a seemingly mild-mannered, middle-class married couple then facing criminal charges for allegedly cheating their way to a ÂŁ1-million jackpot on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" using a system of coded coughs.

    More than half of the TV audience in the U.K. that night watched the documentary. Most of them - including Graham - left with the impression that the Ingrams were not just guilty, but brazen idiots.

    "I just couldn't believe how obvious it was and how audacious their crime was and how stupid they were for thinking

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