The British Museum
October 20, 2015
Inside the British Library’s exhibition, West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song, which traces 1,000 years of West Africa’s cultural and literary history.
The British Museum’s director is adept at forging links where politicians have failed. As Russia’s Hermitage gains from his latest negotiations over the Parthenon marbles, one BBC journalist recalls watching past triumphs unfold
December 6, 2014
Geoffrey Robertson and Amal Clooney helped Greece fight for the return of the Elgin Marbles. Britain refuses to listen, but has shocked the art world by secretly loaning one of the antiquities to Russia.