Handmade in Bolton

• 1. Visigothic Brooch

  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

  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

  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

  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.

Cast

Shaun Greenhalgh

Himself - Presenter

Janina Ramirez

Herself - Presenter

Waldemar Januszczak

Narrator