Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?
| 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 |
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? was a British television panel show which originally ran from 23 October 1952 to 18 March 1959. 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.
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".