| Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Panel show |
| Created by | Nora Wood |
| Presented by | Lionel Hale (1952) Glyn Daniel (1952–59) Barry Cunliffe (1971) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 7 (BBC-tv) 1 (BBC2) |
| No. of episodes | 116 (BBC-tv) 14 (BBC2) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Television Service (1952–59) BBC2 (1971) |
| Release | 23 October 1952 – 29 August 1971 |
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? was a British television panel show which originally ran from 23 October 1952 to 18 March 1959.[1] In the show, a panel of archaeologists, art historians, and natural history experts were asked to identify interesting objects or artefacts from museums from Britain and abroad, and other faculties, including university collections.[2]
The quiz show was presented by the BBC, continuing a long history of bringing contributors to archaeology into the media limelight. Writing in 1953, the critic C.A. Lejeune described the show as having "a sound, full-bodied, vintage flavour".[3]