Handmade in Bolton – Season 1
2019
4 Episodes
Episodes
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S01E01
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.
07 Oct 201930m
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S01E02
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.
09 Oct 201930m
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S01E03
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.
14 Oct 201930m
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S01E04
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.
13 Oct 201930m