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Seriously...

The Forensic Jeweller

Seriously...

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1885 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Jewellery can tell us so much about people - the ones that wore it, and the ones that made it. It reveals something about status, or power, or belief systems - religion and relationships. There's so many interesting things that you can uncover about a person, or a group of people, by their jewellery. This makes it an incredibly useful tool for forensic analysis.

Dr Maria Maclennan, is the world's first, and currently only, Forensic Jeweller. In this show, we accompany Maria to the Evros region of Greece, where she, along with her team of Dr Jan Bikker, Professor Pavlidis Pavlos and Filmmaker Harry Lawson, are using the forensic analysis of jewellery to identify deceased migrants.

The goal is to give back a name to many of the missing and unidentified who sadly lose their lives trying to enter Europe.

A single piece of jewellery can unlock an entire identity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.

0:05.0

The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.

0:09.0

And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.

0:12.0

The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.

0:12.5

The IRA inmates who found a way.

0:14.5

I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path

0:19.5

through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.

0:25.0

The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.

0:28.5

Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:40.0

Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasulae. This podcast finds the world's best

0:47.0

audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. This is the Aegean Sea.

1:04.0

Each year, thousands of migrants try to cross the water to reach Europe.

1:10.0

But not all of them survive the journey.

1:15.0

Their story ends on these shores.

1:21.0

And another one begins. My name is Dr Maria McLennan. I'm the world's first and currently only forensic

1:38.2

jeweller. I'm part of a team working to identify the displaced. So if you just want to come this way, this is the

1:48.0

jewellery and silversmithing workshop. I have always believed that jewellery can embody so much about a person, the one that made it and the one that wore it.

1:59.0

It says something about status or power or belief systems, religion and relationships.

2:07.0

There's so many interesting things that we can uncover about a person or a group of people buy their jewellery.

2:15.2

This makes it an incredibly useful tool for forensic analysis.

2:19.2

One ring, one bracelet, one hearing.

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