Editing Bamber Gascoigne (section)

==Television and books==
Gascoigne was the author of ''Murgatreud's Empire'', a 1972 satirical novel concerning an entrepreneur who finds an island of [[pygmies]] and trades them arms for treasure, recreating the development of European medieval weaponry and armour.<ref name="indy">{{cite news |last=Nugent |first=Annabel |title=Former University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne has died |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bamber-gascoigne-death-age-cause-b2010050.html |work=[[The Independent]] |date=8 February 2022 |access-date=14 July 2023}}</ref> This was originally written as a script, although the play was abandoned because of the impossibility of finding suitable performers for a cast of forty pygmies.<ref name="Times"/>

In 1977, Gascoigne wrote and presented ''The Christians'',<ref name="Midgley"/> a 13-hour television documentary series on the [[history of Christianity]], produced by [[Granada Television]] and broadcast on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. The same year he wrote a companion book, under the same title, with photography by his wife, Christina Gascoigne, published by [[Jonathan Cape]]. In 2003 it was revised and republished as ''A Brief History of Christianity'' by [[Robinson Publishing]].<ref name="Christianity">{{cite web |title=A brief history of Christianity / Bamber Gascoigne. |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24466152?q&versionId=29535993 |publisher=[[National Library of Australia]] |access-date=10 September 2013}}</ref>

Gascoigne wrote ''Quest for the Golden Hare'', a 1983 account of the internationally publicised treasure hunt associated with the publication in 1979 of [[Kit Williams]]' book ''[[Masquerade (book)|Masquerade]]''.<ref name=Times>{{cite news |title=Bamber Gascoigne obituary |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/bamber-gascoigne-obituary-m2pvj0svj |url-access=subscription |work=[[The Times]] |date=8 February 2022 |access-date=8 February 2022}}</ref> On 8 August 1979, Gascoigne was witness to the burial by Williams, in an [[earthenware]] jar "somewhere in Britain", of a unique jewelled, solid gold [[pendant]] in the design of a [[hare]]. The book documents the search and a scandal associated with the pendant's eventual discovery.<ref name=Times/><ref>{{cite news |last=Shields |first=Mark |title=Masquerade: How a real-life treasure hunt obsessed a nation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-47671776 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=6 April 2019 |access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref>

In 1987, Gascoigne presented a documentary series of six 30-minute programmes on [[Victorian era|Victorian history]], ''Victorian Values'', produced by Granada Television. The programmes looked at how Victorian society put in place the infrastructure of the [[Welfare state#United Kingdom|modern welfare state]].<ref name="indy"/>

In 1988, Gascoigne devised and presented a [[BBC Two]] arts quiz called ''Connoisseur'', for which he also set the questions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Connoisseur |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9f9803a50ad849b194fb484242a5facf |work=Programme Index |publisher=BBC |date=3 May 1988 |access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref>

Gascoigne was the writer and presenter of the TV series ''[[The Great Moghuls]]'' (1990), a study of the [[Mughal Empire]] of India.<ref name="Moghuls">{{cite news |last=Brogan |first=Benedict |author-link=Benedict Brogan |title=Gascoigne rides in hot pursuit of the great Moghuls |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/gascoigne-rides-in-hot-pursuit-of-the-great-moghuls-1.592369 |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |location=Glasgow |date=2 February 1990 |access-date=20 September 2013}}</ref> The series was based on Gascoigne's 1971 book of the same name, which features photographs by his wife.<ref name="Moghuls"/>

In 1994 Gascoigne held the [[Sandars Lectures|Sandars Readership in Bibliography]] and presented "From priceless perfection to cheap charm: stages in the development of colour printing."