Before his criminal convictions became public, James Wallace was best known as a leading businessman who used his fortune to become the most revered philanthropist Aotearoa’s arts world had seen. But how did he reach the heights from which he was to fall?

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Music included in this episode:

Camille Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals: The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem: Lacrimosa

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1

Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons: Summer

Jules Massenet - Thaïs: Méditation

Franz Schubert - Ellens Gesang III “Ave Maria”

Franz Lehár - The Merry Widow: Lippen Schweigen

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