Handmade in Bolton (2019)
Shaun Greenhalgh and Dr Janina Ramirez research and remake a selection of precious objects from the past using traditional materials and methods.
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Episode 1 - Visigothic Brooch
Release Date: 2019-10-07Oxford 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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Episode 2 - Nottingham Alabaster
Release Date: 2019-10-09Dr 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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Episode 3 - Palissy Plate
Release Date: 2019-10-14Ex-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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Episode 4 - Rock Crystal Bottle
Release Date: 2019-10-13Dr 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.