Will Chalk
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Sep
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Our Washington correspondent Gary O'Donoghue has more.
Gary O'Donoghue there.
Now, the bio tapestry has been returned to England for the first time in nearly a thousand years.
And you can only imagine how relieved everyone is that there are no visible signs of damage after its journey from France.
The 70 metre long embroidered cloth dates back to the 11th century and famously depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England and the pivotal Battle of Hastings in 1066.
It's standard fare for every school child in the UK.
Now, that event saw William of Normandy defeat the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson to become the first Norman King of England.
The tapestry will be on public display for nine months from September, but our culture editor Katie Razzell went to the British Museum a little early to take a look.
I'm outside the gallery at the British Museum and I'm putting on a blue plastic apron, very fetching, and some blue plastic shoe covers because they are taking every precaution when it comes to the safety of the Bayeux Tapestry.
Merci vraiment.
Et voilà.
George Osborne, the British Museum chair and former chancellor, is showing the French culture minister the tapestry to check the prized medieval masterpiece has not been damaged and try to reassure those in France who thought it was too precious to loan.
We have had a team of French and British experts who have done an amazing job in transporting this very, very delicate item across the Channel and unfurling it here for us.
Yes, we have looked after it, so it's there for all time.
Catherine Pegard, the French minister, tells me she's moved to be here and to see the tapestry from so close.
And will the French public be reassured that the tapestry is safe here in Britain?
She told me, of course, the French public can feel confident about the safety of the precious work.
Every care is being taken, she said, and it is in a wonderful condition.
That, she believes, will reassure the sceptics.
It speaks to a long-standing relationship between Britain and France.
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