Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?

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United Kingdom

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How it feels

A panel of experts identifies objects brought from museums and university collections. The show is a quiz that tests their knowledge of archaeology, art history, and natural history.

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What happens

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? was a British television panel show which originally ran from 23 October 1952 to 18 March 1959. In the show, a panel of archaeologists, art historians, and natural history experts were asked to identify interesting objects or artefacts from museums from Britain and abroad, and other faculties, including university collections. The quiz show was presented by the BBC, continuing a long history of bringing contributors to archaeology into the media limelight. Writing in 1953, the critic C.A. Lejeune described the show as having "a sound, full-bodied, vintage flavour". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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