Seasons & Episodes
Episode 1
This week, presenter Kirsty Wark investigates why churches are a law unto themselves when it comes to conservation. And
Episode 2
Magazine series in which Kirsty Wark is your guide to the people and issues that shape Britain's heritage. This week Luc
Episode 3
This week: the threat to what has been described as the greatest power station ever built; meet the Gibsons, who discove
Episode 4
This week: Number 7 Blythe Grove - the suburban semi that time forgot, now rescued by the National Trust; how history ha
Episode 5
This week: is London's crumbling Albert Memorial doomed to stay under wraps, without the funds to restore it? Denis Hea
Episode 6
This week: restoration or innovation? Controversial plans for the future of St George's Hall, Windsor Castle; Lucinda La
Episode 7
This week's programme includes an exclusive visit by Lucinda Lambton to the gothic wonders of Sir George Gilbert Scott's
Episode 8
In the last programmes of the series a report on Scotland's controversial programme of cleaning historic buildings, and
Episode 1
The demolition of the huge, neo-classical Euston Arch in the 1960s to make way for the new railway terminus in north Lon
Episode 2
Kirsty Wark reports on Nancy Buckle's battle to remain as sole resident of the House on the Rock in Knaresborough, the e
Episode 3
Kirsty Wark reports on the councils accused of vandalising their historic cemeteries; Betty Boothroyd, Speaker of the Ho
Episode 4
This week: Betty Boothroyd, Speaker of the House of Commons, shows Dan Cruickshank her apartments designed by Augustus P
Episode 5
This week Kirsty Wark is joined by Loyd Grossman to confront heritage experts with some of the weird and wonderful post-
Episode 6
Jonathan Meades goes to Dorset in search of the English baroque and Gavin Stamp bemoans the state of buildings by Scotti
Episode 7
Germaine Greer sings the praises of the original site of the British Library in Bloomsbury.
Episode 8
Jools Holland travels to Portmeirion in Wales, on the trail of his architectural hero Clough Williams Ellis. And as Brit
Episode 9
Dan Cruickshank hunts for the Skylon, centrepiece of the Festival of Britain and not seen since it was dismantled in 195
Episode 10
Architect Richard Rogers gives a guided tour around the house he built for his parents, and travel writer Eric Newby vis
Episode 1
The controversial restoration of Westminster Abbey is due to be unveiled by the Queen this year but some critics feel it
Episode 2
The programme uncovering Britain's heritage. Presenter Kirsty Wark asks just how did King Henry VIII go to the lavatory?
Episode 3
This week, Lucinda Lambton visits Brodsworth House in Yorkshire, a mid- 1 9th century house packed with crumbling Victor
Episode 4
Food writer Jennifer Paterson visits the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire to investigate a feud between three rival makers
Episode 5
The programme looking at Britain's heritage and history makes a visit to London's Barts Hospital with Lucinda Lambton, a
Episode 6
This week, Penelope Keith visits Folly Farm in Berkshire, which represents two different phases in the working partnersh
In Ruins
Up and down the country, sad but heroic ruins dot the landscape. Kirsty Wark guides us through some of Britain's forgott
The Baedeker Blitz
This special edition reports on an important heritage battle of the Second World War. In spring 1942, the Nazis declare
Episode 9
This week, Patrick Moore from the BBC's Sky at Night visits the now redundant Equatorial Telescopes Buildings at Herstmo
Episode 10
Kirsty Wark introduces the last in the series of programmes celebrating classic buildings. Britain's greatest railway m
Episode 1
Tonight, Jack Charlton visits his childhood haunts in Northumberland, while Kirsty Wark looks at gasometers at London's
Episode 2
Tonight Kirsty Wark visits Wormwood Scrubs in west London to reveal a hidden heritage. Dame Thora Hird dances the night
Episode 3
Kirsty Wark tells the story of model villages, Sir Bernard Ingham visits the Stoodley Pike obelisk, while Ptolemy Dean r
Episode 4
Unlikely romantic Ross Kemp, who plays Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, visits Cliveden in Berkshire, a 19th-century house
Episode 5
Actor Ralph Fiennes visits Clouds Hill in Dorset, the tiny cottage home of T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Ar
Episode 6
Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, is a beautiful, but little-known pier. It is the work of the Victorian pie
Episode 7
Behind the closed doors of modern government are the forgotten remnants of Henry Vlll's great lost palace - Whitehall. S
Episode 8
In the wake of the controversy stirred up by the Heritage Lottery Fund's multi-million pound award to purchase the Churc
Episode 9
Lucinda Lambton travels to Ireland to visit Castle Leslie in County Monaghan, now open to payingguests. There, she talks
Episode 1
Tonight, former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo celebrates the charms of Wotton House in Buckinghamshire. Dan Cruicks
Episode 2
Tonight Kirsty Wark looks into a dispute over the future of an old cinema in Devon and Simon Thurley goes on a subterran
Episode 3
Kirsty Wark visits a National Trust-owned former Victorian workhouse. Gavin Stamp considers the life of architect George
Episode 4
Tonight Avengers star Patrick Macnee returns to his childhood haunt, the seaside town of Bosham in West Sussex, where Ki
Episode 5
Tonight lifelong dance-lover and popular actress Dora Bryan explores the sometimes-faded glamour of Britain's old ballro
Episode 6
This week Dan Cruickshank reveals the untold story of Britain's imperial strength when he visits what was the Royal Gunp
Episode 7
This week Richard Wilson takes a step back in time as he explores the gothic splendour of Glasgow University. Simon Thur
Episode 8
Comedian Bob Monkhouse oversees a guided tour around Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, where he made films in the lat
Episode 1
The heritage and architecture show returns for an eight-part series, beginning with a glimpse of the restoration perform
Episode 2
The heritage series continues as Raine, Countess Spencer traces the history of London's Claridges hotel in the year of i
Episode 3
The heritage and architecture series continues as Esther Rantzen finds peace and tranquility in Salisbury Cathedral, Dan
Picton Library, the Post Office Tower and Toxteth Library
The heritage and architecture series continues as actress Jean Alexander reveals her former career when she returns to L
Episode 5
The heritage and architecture series continues as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa reveals her favourite building. Once a cinema, it
Episode 6
The heritage and architecture series continues as Kirsty Wark argues for a meaningful monument to Diana, Princess of Wal
Episode 7
The heritage and architecture series concludes with an investigation into the closure of Britain's historic courthouses.
Episode 1
In the first of seven programmes Kirsty Wark recounts the turbulent history of the Scottish crown jewels, and asks wheth
Episode 2
Kirsty Wark looks at the uncertain future of Wentworth Woodhouse, the vast Georgian Palace in Yorkshire; actor Michael E
Episode 3
Simon Thurley travels to three of Britain's great architectural triumphs: the domes of St Paul 's in London, Howard Cast
Episode 4
Each year thousands of National Trust members spend their holidays working on stately homes. Kirsty Wark joins one group
Episode 5
Raine Spencer absorbs the grandeur of Brighton Pavilion, an edifice that bears witness to George IV's hedonistic lifest
Episode 6
Steam trains are making a comeback - Kirsty Wark reports on a breakthrough that means the latest locomotives are efficie
Episode 7
In this last programme in the series, Kirsty Wark looks into the requisitioning of railings during the Second World War
Episode 1
As it returns for a new, eight-part run, the heritage series looks at buildings inspired by animals, starting an animal-
Sex and the Georgian City
Behind their elegant Georgian facades, 18th-century cities were built on the profits of the sex industry, where prostitu
Transport
Tonight's film celebrates the golden age of public transport - when railway stations were cathedrals, journeys were to b
Women in Architecture
Traditionally, architecture has been a profession dominated by men. But Joan Bakewell digs into the profession's history
Nelson: the Hero and the Harlot
Nelson is seen as the classic British hero, yet, as this film recalls, he also shocked polite society when, at the heigh
Sculpture
Kirsty Wark asks why Britain has never embraced fountains as enthusiastically as the continent, plus a look at the hidde
Decoration
Interiors can say more about how people lived than bricks and mortar. Kirsty Wark discovers a lost tradition of plasterw
Restoration
In the last of the series, Kirsty Wark follows vital repair work to the Wellington Arch in London, Philippa Gregory expl
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