THE COUNTESS | A New Audio Play by Paul Kalburgi

BRITAIN'S MOST BIZARRE BENEFITS SCANDAL

Listen to The Countess, an audio play by Paul Kalburgi

This verbatim play tells the true story of self-styled, 'Countess' Mariaska Romanov, a Harlesden woman who led an extraordinary double life; claiming to be both a direct descendent of the Russian Royal family and her very own paraplegic twin sister - Marianne Johnson. After conning Brent council out of nearly £200,000 in fraudulent benefit claims, the decade-long web of lies was finally unravelled in a six-week trial dubbed ‘stranger than fiction. Told through exclusive interviews with the people at the centre of the story, illuminating transcripts and extensive research.

OUT 20 JUNE - Listen and follow here.