Handmade in Bolton

Synopsis

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

First Air Date: 2019-10-07

Last Air Date: 2019-10-14

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 4

Networks: BBC Four

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Ep. 1: Visigothic Brooch (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.
Ep. 2: Nottingham Alabaster (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.
Ep. 3: Palissy Plate (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.
Ep. 4: Rock Crystal Bottle (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.