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Ceramics: A Fragile History
History · 2011
Last aired: S1 E3, The Art of the Potter · 2011-10-24
Three-part series looking at the history of pottery in Britain.
Season 1
E1
The Story of Clay
2011-10-10 · 60 min
A look at the history of domestic pottery in Britain from Tudor times onwards, examining what it can tell us about how preceeding generations lived.
E2
The Age of Wedgwood
2011-10-17 · 60 min
The series continues with the rags to riches-to-rags epic of Stoke-on-Trent, a city built on clay and the heart of Britain's once world-beating ceramics empire.
E3
The Art of the Potter
2011-10-24 · 60 min
A look at how, in the 19th and 20th centuries, artisans like Bernard Leach broke the monopoly of the ceramic factories by creating the studio pottery movement.
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Ruth Wilson
Narrator