Timewatch

Timewatch· Season 5 · Episode 7

The Price of the Past

S05E07·October 9, 1986·50m·BBC Two

Peter France introduces three films exploring the backgrounds of historic items recently auctioned and the motivations of the bidders: - A Victoria Cross won at the battle of Rorke's Drift more than 100 years ago - Four pages from a medieval illuminated manuscript about the life of Saint Thomas Beckett, changing hands for the first time in nearly 500 years

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