A vast hoard of Roman coins leads John Prescott to discover that political spin began much earlier than he thought,
Mary-Ann Ochota tells the story of an astonishing Iron Age mirror, and Bettany Hughes reveals the royal secret behind a hunting badge attached to a bird of prey.
Suzannah Lipscomb travels to Essex, where an Elizabethan pendant was found five years ago by a carpenter on the grounds of Ingatestone Hall.
