How We Built Britain

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David Dimbleby travels across Britain to study some of its most extrodinary architecture, discovering how the social history of the nation and its people can be discovered through a variety of buildings and structures. He explores the dynamic people, cultures and beliefs that led to their creation, and tells the story of each place he encounters

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Latest Episodes

  • Season 1 Episode 6: The South: Dreams of Tomorrow

    David Dimbleby completes his journey through Britain, tracing the arrival of the bold new Modernist style at a glorious public swimming pool on the south coast. After assessing the effects the war had on what was built immediately after the hostilities, he travels to the capital and asks how many of the breathtaking towers of steel and glass will still be standing in a hundred years from now. Last in series

  • Season 1 Episode 5: The North: Full Steam Ahead

    David Dimbleby heads to Yorkshire to learn about the industrial hub of Queen Victoria's Britain, where progress affected people in radically different ways. He then travels by steam to Newcastle before venturing south-west to Manchester, discovering vast warehouses based on Venetian palaces and a town hall with distinctly Gothic architecture. His journey also takes him to the grand merchant houses, music halls and shopping arcades of Leeds

  • Season 1 Episode 4: The West: Putting on the Style

    David Dimbleby travels west to discover the impact of Georgian architectural theory, exploring the man-made Stourhead garden in Wiltshire and taking in the grandeur of Oxfordshire's Blenheim Palace. He travels by sedan chair through Bath, taking the waters and extolling the virtues of the terraced house, visits the tin mines of Cornwall and crosses the Menai Bridge into Anglesey before ending his journey in the city of Dublin

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