Timewatch

Season 5, Episode 7

Episode Title: The Price of the Past

Air Date: 1986-10-09

Overview:

Peter France introduces three films exploring the backgrounds of historic items recently auctioned and the motivations of the bidders: - A Victoria Cross won at the battle of Rorke's Drift more than 100 years ago - Four pages from a medieval illuminated manuscript about the life of Saint Thomas Beckett, changing hands for the first time in nearly 500 years