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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?

  • TV Series
  • 1952–1959
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
31
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Jacquetta Hawkes, Julian Huxley, and Mortimer Wheeler in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? (1952)
Game Show

Panel game in which a panel of three experts tried to identify objects from British museums.Panel game in which a panel of three experts tried to identify objects from British museums.Panel game in which a panel of three experts tried to identify objects from British museums.

  • Stars
    • Glyn Daniel
    • Mortimer Wheeler
    • Hugh Shortt
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    31
    YOUR RATING
    • Stars
      • Glyn Daniel
      • Mortimer Wheeler
      • Hugh Shortt
    • 1User review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Glyn Daniel
    • Self - Chairman
    • 1952–1959
    Mortimer Wheeler
    • Self - Expert…
    • 1952–1959
    Hugh Shortt
    • Self - Expert
    • 1953–1959
    Thomas Bodkin
    • Self - Expert
    • 1952–1959
    Geoffrey Hext Sutherland Bushnell
    • Self - Expert
    • 1953–1959
    Adrian Digby
    • Self - Deputy Keeper of Ethnography, British Museum
    • 1952–1956
    John Betjeman
    • Self - (Chairman)
    • 1955–1957
    Norman Cook
    • Self
    • 1953–1958
    Stuart Piggott
    • Self
    • 1953–1959
    Julian Huxley
    • Self
    • 1952–1955
    W.E. Swinton
    • Self
    • 1953–1955
    R. Bruce-Mitford
    • Self
    • 1953–1959
    Michael Ayrton
    • Self
    • 1955–1957
    John Summerson
    • Self
    • 1956–1957
    James Laver
    • Self - Keeper of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum
    • 1952–1953
    James Mann
    • Self
    • 1954–1957
    Philip Corder
    • Self
    • 1955–1957
    Stephen Bone
    • Self
    • 1955–1957
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      Featured in Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV 854
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      Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
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    • Release date
      • October 23, 1952 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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