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Handmade in Bolton

Series 1

Visigothic Brooch

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

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. Show more

The story behind Sylvia Plath’s seminal novel The Bell Jar: a young woman’s struggle to survive in 1950s America. With her daughter Freida Hughes and several of her close friends. Show more

Timeshift

Series 2

The Great British Seaside Holiday

Duration: 42 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention since. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
John Walton
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Seddon
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Meades
Interviewed Guest:
Matthew Harwood
Interviewed Guest:
Bill Pertwee
Interviewed Guest:
Martin Parr

BBC Four

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