The Bayeux Tapestry: A Precious Cargo', with Peter Ricketts, Jim Peters, and Janina Ramirez
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How do you move one of the worlds greates treasures across the Channel after almost a thousand years?
How do you move one of the worlds greates treasures across the Channel after almost a thousand years? Meet the people at the heart of the Bayeux Tapestrys top secret historic journey to Britain.
Government Envoy for the Tapestry Peter Ricketts navigated the diplomacy, leading British Museum Collections Manager Jim Peters helped ensure its safe handling and medieval historian Janina Ramirez took part in a TV documentary on the process.
They reveal for the first time the challenges and the extraordinary responsibility of transporting this precious cargo and each chooses one unforgettable detail to look out for in the Tapestry.Chaired by Bayeux expert, History Extras David Musgrove.
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