Rent The Country House Revealed (2011)
4.1 of 5 from 48 ratings
5h 54min
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- Synopsis:
Historian Dan Cruickshank is invited through the closed doors of six of Britain's greatest private houses in an illuminating and surprising journey through our architectural history. These fascinating buildings remain private homes and closed to the public, but their owners have allowed Dan Cruickshank to roam the corridors, tease out each home's story - who built them, lived in them and lost them - and uncover tales of excess and profligacy, power and ambition. From the disarming Elizabethan charm of 'South Wraxall Manor', the classical rigour of 'Kinross House' in Scotland and the majesty and ingenuity of Hawks moor's 'Easton Neston', to the Palladian sweep of 'Wentworth Woodhouse' with its 600-foot frontage, the Victorian exuberance of 'Clandeboye' and the Edwardian ingenuity of Lutyens' 'Marsh Court', the secrets of these houses reveal not only the story of our architecture, but also reflect the fortunes of the nation itself. Dan shows how the story of each house tells the social and economic history of Britain, each built on an economic crest or crash and uniquely expressive of its creator's aims, strengths and frailties; the crystallisation of a ruling class at a moment in time. - Actors:
- Dan Cruickshank, Jonathan Bate, Tim Couzens, Gela Nash, Lucy Worsley, Michael Bowes Lyon, Andrew Bruce, John Lowrey, Basil Henry David Montgomery, Jamie Montgomery, Lizzie Montgomery, Charles Wemyss, Joanne Bailey, Mick Broom, Ptolemy Dean, Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, Robert Howard, Leon Max, Trish York, John Ambler
- Directors:
- Philip Smith, Jenny Dames, David Jeffcock, Ian MacMillan
- Producers:
- Patrick Forbes, Philip Smith
- Narrated By:
- Dan Cruickshank
- Writers:
- Dan Cruickshank
- Studio:
- BBC
- Genres:
- Special Interest, British TV, TV Documentaries
