Handmade in Bolton

2019•30m

Documentary

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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Returning Series

First Aired

October 7, 2019

Last Aired

October 14, 2019

Networks

BBC Four

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Visigothic Brooch

Air date: 2019-10-07

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.

Nottingham Alabaster

Air date: 2019-10-09

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.

Palissy Plate

Air date: 2019-10-14

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.

Rock Crystal Bottle

Air date: 2019-10-13

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.