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Handmade in Bolton

  • 2019
  • Returning Series
  • Documentary
  • ~30m / ep
  • 1 season

Shaun Greenhalgh and Dr Janina Ramirez research and remake a selection of precious objects from the past using traditional materials and methods.

Latest: Season 1 · 2019

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  1. E1. Visigothic Brooch

    Oct 7, 2019 · 30m

    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.

  2. E2. Nottingham Alabaster

    Oct 9, 2019 · 30m

    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.

  3. E3. Palissy Plate

    Oct 14, 2019 · 30m

    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.

  4. E4. Rock Crystal Bottle

    Oct 13, 2019 · 30m

    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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