'The Bayeux Tapestry: A Precious Cargo', with Peter Ricketts, Michael Lewis, and Janina Ramirez

How do you move one of the world’s greates treasures across the Channel after almost a thousand years? Meet the people at the heart of the Bayeux Tapestry’s top secret historic journey to Britain. Government Envoy for the Tapestry Lord Peter Ricketts navigated the diplomacy, Michael Lewis is Curator of the British Museum Bayeux exhibition and medieval historian Janina Ramirez took part in a TV documentary on the 11th century treasure. They explore the challenges of displaying the Tapestry in London, its extraordinary history across the centuries and each chooses one unforgettable detail to look out for. 

Chaired by Bayeux expert, History Extra’s David Musgrove.