Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

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01:08:13 - Pink Wellies get the Boot as Police Intervene to Stop Metal Detecting Rally Breaching COVID Rules:

http://thepipeline.info/blog/2020/10/03/pink-wellies-get-the-boot-as-police-intervene-to-stop-metal-detecting-rally-breaching-covid-rules/

Metal detectorist unearths 1,150 year old Viking board game:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/metal-detectorist-viking-board-game-lincolnshire-hnefatafl-torksey-auction-b421635.html

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01:31:53 - Royal Academy’s cruel dilemma: sell a Michelangelo or lose 150 jobs:

https://tinyurl.com/yy9rjcqa

Royal Opera House to sell off David Hockney painting in bid to stay afloat:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/oct/04/royal-opera-house-to-sell-off-david-hockney-painting-in-bid-to-stay-afloat

This is how bad things are for museums: They now have a green light to sell off their art:

https://tinyurl.com/ycwtwq4p

American Alliance of Museums: Questions and Answers about Selling Objects from the Collection:

https://www.aam-us.org/programs/ethics-standards-and-professional-practices/questions-and-answers-about-selling-objects-from-the-collection/

Centre for art law: Museums and COVID-19: from Deaccessioning to Reopening:

https://tinyurl.com/y3uod24s

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01:54:01 – Muppets of the Month:

Lost Shrewsbury chapel remains hidden as team ‘digs in the wrong castle’: