Intelligent Squared is a podcast about true crime and the Grand Scammer. This week, we talk to Rachel Williams and Erland Aundsen who were closely involved in True Life scams that have become pop culture phenomena. We also hear from Manveen Rana, award-winning journalist and host of the Stories of Our Times podcast. Available now on Spotify.
Anna Delvey and Simon Leviev, now infamously known as The Fake Heiress and The Tinder Swindler, are two characters who have infiltrated pop culture and gripped Netflix viewers over recent months. Their joint claim to fame? They're both notorious con artists. So why are viewers and listeners so drawn to these stories of true crime? Writer and author Rachel Williams and journalist Erlend Ofte Arntsen were closely involved in the real-life stories that shaped Netflix's The Tinder Swindler and Inventing Anna. They join journalist and broadcaster Manveen Rana to help provide some answers.
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