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BBC Two 2005 - 2006 2 seasons 14 eps Ended

The Curious House Guest

2005 - 2006 2 seasons 14 eps

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Season 2

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Season 2

30 min

S2 · E1 · Mar 30, 2006

Holkham Hall Episode 1

Jeremy Musson visits Britain's grandest houses. He's at Holkham Hall, the Norfolk home of Lord and Lady Leicester, and claims that although Palladio was its inspiration, Britain gave Holkham's architectural style to the world.

30 min

S2 · E2 · Apr 6, 2006

Ninfa Episode 2

Jeremy Musson visits Ninfa, Italy's medieval Pompeii. He often finds Italian influences shaping our country houses, but at Ninfa he discovers that British ideas have moulded its current form.

30 min

S2 · E3 · Apr 13, 2006

Vann Episode 3

Vann is the Surrey home of an architectural dynasty. WD Caroe was a leading light of the Arts and Crafts movement and his descendents have followed his footsteps. Jeremy Musson is entertained by the current generation of Caroes, but has to overcome an attack of vertigo.

30 min

S2 · E4 · Apr 20, 2006

Hampden Great House Episode 4

Hampden Great House is a Georgian landed estate that has been owned by the same family for the last 150 years, but Jeremy Musson had to travel 4,500 miles to reach it. However, for the weary visitor there were sweeteners of sugar and rum - the reasons for this Jamaican plantation's very existence.

30 min

S2 · E5 · May 4, 2006

Renishaw Hall Episode 5

Jeremy Musson visits Renishaw Hall, home of the arty, eccentric Sitwell family, whose fortunes soared in the 19th century when coal was found on the estate. Today, the mines are gone and the house is once more surrounded by the green hills of Derbyshire.

30 min

S2 · E6 · May 11, 2006

Hippo Point Episode 6

Jeremy Musson visits Kenyan colonial house Hippo Point - every bit the Tudor manor house, except for the giraffes and zebras strolling past the garden fence.

30 min

S2 · E7 · May 15, 2006

Stradey Castle Episode 7

Jeremy Musson visits Stradey Castle, the LIanelli home of the Mansel Lewis family. He goes back to Victorian times to explore a house that was built at the height of the Industrial Revolution and which is still home to the family that built it.

30 min

S2 · E8 · May 18, 2006

Provender Episode 8

Jeremy Musson visits Provender, a small piece of Russia in the Garden of England. Its owner Princess Olga Romanoff tells Jeremy about her close family links to the last tsar, and about her ambitious plans to restore one of the most historic, yet least known, houses in Kent.

8 episodes in Season 2

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Jeremy Musson -- architectural historian and journalist with Country Life -- visits Britain's grandest houses. In each episode he visits a historic private house and combines observations on architecture with insights into the lives of the owners.

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Cast

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Jeremy Musson

Self - Presenter

Spike Geilinger Director · Richard Walmsley Composer · Keith Ware Editor

Director Cinematographer

Spike Geilinger

Composer

Richard Walmsley

Editor

Keith Ware

Total runtime 7h 0m · Episode length 30 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

January 7, 2005

Final episode

May 18, 2006

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Two

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Documentary

Episode length

30 min

Total runtime

7h 0m

Original language

English

Production

B

BBC Cymru Wales

Production

United Kingdom

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English

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