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I, Object!Why Object?I object: Ian Hislop's search for dissent

A selection of objects from the British Museum exhibition.

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The Strangford Shield. The gold and ivory statue of Athena from the Parthenon 200-300.

Roman marble copy of the shield. Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum

  • Fired clay brick. Nebuchadnezzar II, inscribed with the name of its maker.
  • Imitation banknote designed by George Cruikshank (1792-1878), 1819.
  • Peckham Rock. Banksy, 2005.
  • The Strangford Shield. The gold and ivory statue of Athena from the Parthenon 200-300.
  • Phantom Landscape III, leaf one, by Yang Yongliang, Shanghai, 2007.

This gallery is from

  • I, Object!Why Object?

    The last programme in Ian Hislop's series celebrating great works of sedition and dissent.

    BBC Radio 4

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