Handmade in Bolton

Season 1

2019 · 4 episodes · 2h 0m in all · 6.5/10

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Visigothic Brooch

   7 Oct 2019 · 30 min · 6.0/10

   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. 2

   2. Nottingham Alabaster

   9 Oct 2019 · 30 min · 6.0/10

   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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   3. Palissy Plate

   14 Oct 2019 · 30 min · 7.0/10

   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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   4. Rock Crystal Bottle

   13 Oct 2019 · 30 min · 7.0/10

   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.