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Handmade in Bolton
Handmade in Bolton Episodes
Series 1: 1. Visigothic Brooch
Shaun Greenhalgh was once a prolific forger. Based in a garden shed in his parents' house in Bolton, he fooled the experts for three decades with an impressive array of fakes. O ...
13-09-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 4. Rock Crystal Bottle
Oxford historian Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh his hardest task yet. Shaun has to carve an Islamic bottle out of rock crystal in the style of the 10th-centur ...
15-02-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. Palissy Plate
In episode three, 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. Palissy’ ...
14-02-2022
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. Nottingham Alabaster
In episode two, 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 bef ...
13-02-2022
BBC 4