Timewatch
The Price of the Past
TV-PG
S5 • E7 Oct 8, 1986 50mPeter 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
- 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
