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Behind the scenes at the British Museum. Curator Chris Spring is pitching for funds to buy La Bouche du Roi, an installation. Will he be successful?

Documentary following the events behind the scenes at the British Museum. This programme follows curator Chris Spring's mission to buy La Bouche du Roi, an anti-slavery installation made of petrol cans. He can't afford it without help from the Art Fund, but will his pitch result in success? Meanwhile Philip Attwood is on a Rotterdam barge buying contemporary medals, and Judy Rudoe receives a Soviet-style gift from the modern entrepreneurial Russian industry.

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