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Season 1

  • S01E01 Visigothic Brooch

    • October 7, 2019
    • BBC Four

    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.

  • S01E02 Nottingham Alabaster

    • October 9, 2019
    • BBC Four

    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.

  • S01E03 Palissy Plate

    • October 10, 2019
    • BBC Four

    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.

  • S01E04 Rock Crystal Bottle

    • October 13, 2019
    • BBC Four

    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.