Handmade in Bolton - Season 1

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Visigothic Brooch

1 - Visigothic Brooch

Air Date: October 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.

Nottingham Alabaster

2 - Nottingham Alabaster

Air Date: October 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.

Palissy Plate

3 - Palissy Plate

Air Date: October 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.

Rock Crystal Bottle

4 - Rock Crystal Bottle

Air Date: October 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.