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Shaun Greenhalgh and Dr Janina Ramirez research and remake a selection of precious objects from the past using traditional materials and methods.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
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Season 1

  • Visigothic Brooch
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    Visigothic Brooch

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2019

    Oxford historian Dr Janina Ramirez sets Shaun Greenhalgh, once a prolific forger, the challenge of making a jewelled eagle brooch of the kind worn by Visigoth chieftains in the Dark Ages.

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  • Nottingham Alabaster
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    Nottingham Alabaster

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2019

    Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the challenge of making an alabaster carving of the kind mass-produced in Catholic England in the centuries before the Reformation.

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  • Palissy Plate
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    Palissy Plate

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2019

    Ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh is set the task of making a Renaissance animal plate of the type invented by the great French potter Bernard Palissy.

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  • Rock Crystal Bottle
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    Rock Crystal Bottle

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2019

    Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the almost impossible task of carving an Islamic bottle out of rock crystal in the style of the 10th-century Egyptian Fatimids.

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