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The antiques trade’s complex relationship with television was underlined by two 2016 documentaries – Dispatches: ISIS and the Missing Treasures (Channel 4, April 18) and Saving Africa’s Elephants: Hugh and the Ivory War (BBC 1, October 24 and 31).

1. Documentary evidence

Eight months of Dispatches’ undercover journalism “exposing the traffic in lo…

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