Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry: Inside the Museum

BBC Two HD

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Monday 14 September

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Across 70 metres of exquisitely embroidered scenes, the Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of one of the most seismic events in British history - the Norman Invasion of 1066. For the last 950 years, this crucial part of Britain's national story has remained on the other side of the Channel in Bayeux, Normandy, but now it's coming back to the UK. Michael Palin narrates as historians and experts unravel its secrets, following the painstaking efforts to bring this priceless work of art back to the UK, where experts believe it was made, for a once-in-a-millennium exhibition at the British Museum