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Handmade in Bolton

Documentary

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

Oct 7, 20191 seasons4 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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Shaun Greenhalgh

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Janina Ramirez

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Waldemar Januszczak

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Seasons

Season 1

4 episodes

Premiered Oct 7, 2019

Episodes

1–4 of 4

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Ep 1

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.

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Ep 2

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.

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Ep 3

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.

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Ep 4

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.