Well, I thought this pseudo-documentary was a completely bogus exercise - judged in the main by the BM's own academics - with admitted conflicts in their personal area of interest.
For one of the world's premier museums, surely the criteria ought to include at least some weighting towards what brings the average member of the public into museums.
I accept that there is always a massive research collections rarely seen by the general public - and this is rightly the function of a museum for academics - but I would respecfully suggest that it is the items on open display which really attract ordinary people into the site - and they ultimately link to the general public support to the financing of these institutions.
This is not a vote for today's popular idea of 'dumbing-down' - but just a suggestion that the programme should acknowledge the majority of Museum visitors' interests - which surely included the Parthenon Frieze and the Egyptian section?
I am sure a survey of public movements inside the BM produce very different results to this programme.
Also, the British Museum is anything but a purely inward looking collection, and was never intended as such. It surely was based in ideals of broader knowledge of the world outside Britain being available to ordinary people.
This programme was elitist, focused in many cases on very recent discoveries and included nothing of the vast foreign collections.
Was this a deliberate sop to the currently popular view that we pillaged the foreign collections from our empire and other subordinate states at the time of their acquisition?
There is a good argument that we have conserved much that would have been lost - but that does not excuse the viewpoint above being valid today - when originals could be returned to their sites which have since been sercured - with excellent copies made and retained.

Unquestionably, the selection process was rather incestuous, but since the selection was intended to be limited to archeological finds made in the UK, one should not read too much into the exclusion of foreign plunder from the "competition".

Read all the above comments and don't pretend to fully appreciate all of them. My point is that you guys are forgetting that this is a website, therefore accessible to EVERYONE with internet. So whatever the info. contained within, as long as it is accurate with the facts and not TOTALLY offensive in opinion, it is interesting and definitely NOT silly, bogus or incestuous. To the host: Thanks for sharing and hope to see more.!