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Handmade in Bolton - Episode Guide

Season 1

Visigothic Brooch

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2019

Visigothic Brooch

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

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2019

Nottingham Alabaster

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

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 10, 2019

Palissy Plate

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

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 13, 2019

Rock Crystal Bottle

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.

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