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Heart of the Matter: Skeletons in the Cupboard

on BBC One London

How would you like your ancestors' remains to be locked up in somebody else's cupboard and labelled 'scientific specimens'?

In this case the cupboards are in Britain's museums and universities who are reluctant to release their contents in case they are lost for ever, buried on the other side of the world. The scientific specimens are the ancestral remains of Australian
Aborigines; their descendants believe that until the bones are returned to them and buried neither they, nor the living spirits of their ancestors, can rest in peace.
In the first of a new series, Heart of the Matter looks at the Aboriginal claims to the skeletons in the museum cupboards.
With Joan Bakewell.

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Director:
Rizu Hamid
Series Producer:
Olga Edridge

BBC One London

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