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Restitution Study Group Looking to the Past to Create the Future Home NPR Podcast Unraveling the Benin Bronze Controversy A MustListen Podcast Exclusive Insights Listen to the NPR podcast For those still catching up on the ongoing battle over the Benin bronzesNPRs latest award winning Throughline podcast The Kingdom Behind the Glass delivers an insightful deep dive featuring none other thanDeadria FarmerPaellmann Executive Director of the Restitution Study Group along with other prominent voices in this battle Ore Ogunbiyi Africa correspondent for The Economist Nwando Achebe the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History at Michigan State University and Dan Hicks professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford and curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. This episode explores the complex history and legal fight surrounding these looted treasures offering a compelling listen for anyone invested in cultural restitution. But thats not the full story. What NPR didnt air is just as important.