Name: Handmade in Bolton
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-10-07
Cast: Shaun Greenhalgh, Janina Ramirez, Waldemar Januszczak

Episodes

1. Visigothic Brooch

2019-10-07 | 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.

2. Nottingham Alabaster

2019-10-09 | 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.

3. Palissy Plate

2019-10-14 | 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.

4. Rock Crystal Bottle

2019-10-13 | 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.