Editor Lewis McNaught discusses topical restitution news and current initiatives with leading experts

Introduction:
What's different about these video podcasts on returning cultural heritage? What are they all about?

Reconciliation and Healing

11.11.24

Repatriation is not the only solution for the care of culturally sensitive objects. Dr Laura van Broekhoven explains why a delegation of Maasai from Kenya and Tanzania decided to leave a group of ancestral objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

Investigating the Tabots

21.05.24

The British Museum already has the authority to return a collection of sacred objects to Ethiopia. Why is it failing to comply or explain why it won't return the Tabots?

Resolving the Marbles Dispute

15.04.24

Is a resolution to the world's longest-running restitution dispute finally in sight? We ask the author of an important new study on the Parthenon Marbles.