1 x 60 min
| BBC Two

Director:
Joe Myerscough
Producer:
Bernadette Ross
Composer:
Ty Unwin
Executive Producer:
Sarah Spencer, Danny Horan
Commissioner:
Emma Hindley, Mark Bell
Narrator:
Michael Palin

A stellar cast of historians and experts follow the painstaking efforts to bring this priceless work of art back to the UK, where experts believe it was made, for a once-in-a-millennium exhibition at the British Museum.

Reviews

What makes this more than a prestige arts documentary is the sheer logistical difficulty of moving something this fragile, this large, and this irreplaceable.
Izzy Jacobs, MEMORABLE TV

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