It is the first time the site has been dug, so with little to go on, the team wants to find the house then work out its size and scale and what Walsingham may have used it for. Hugh Dennis and the archaeological team return to excavate more people’s gardens, starting in Odiham in Hampshire, searching for the house of Sir Frances Walsingham, head of Elizabeth I’s secret service. The Great British Dig: History In Your Back Garden The fascinating nugget here is that her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein predated this Manhattan exile – and the US financier had helped her father to hide his money. As his sons, Kevin and Ian Maxwell, go on trial at the Old Bailey, daughter Ghislaine decamps to New York. We also get to grips with the aftermath of Maxwell’s mysterious death at sea, as the knowledge begins seeping out that he has stolen £400m from the Mirror Group’s pension funds to service his debts. Last week we learnt how Robert Maxwell bugged his employees’ conversations across his business empire, and this excellent series now turns its attention to the fact that the disgraced tycoon also secretly listened in on his own family.
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