Episode 1: The East: A New Dawn Dimbleby begins his tour of Britain's historic buildings in
Ely in
Ely Cathedral before moving on to
Hedingham Castle,
Norwich and
Lavenham. He visited
Walsingham and the
Slipper Chapel before finishing at the
University of Cambridge's
King's College Chapel.
Episode 2: The Heart of England: Living It Up In this programme Dimbleby examines how England had been changed by the
Elizabethan Renaissance and visited stately homes including
Burghley House,
Harvington Hall, the
Triangular Lodge and
Chastleton House, one of Britain's most complete
Jacobean houses.
Episode 3: Scotland: Towering Ambitions In this episode Dimbleby travels north to discover how Scotland developed its own distinctive building style. During the programme he visited
Stirling Castle,
Dunrobin Castle,
Gearrannan on the
Isle of Lewis and
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece, the
Glasgow School of Art before finishing at the new
Scottish Parliament Building in
Edinburgh.
Episode 4: The West: Putting on the Style Episode 4 sees Dimbleby visiting the
Georgian terraces of
Bath and
Bristol, as well as
Blenheim Palace and
Stourhead. Visiting sites where the
Industrial Revolution began, he looked at the canals and locks of the
West Country and the
tin mines of
Cornwall before travelling across Wales to
Thomas Telford's
Menai Bridge and Ireland to explore Georgian
Dublin.
Episode 5: The North: Full Steam Ahead The start of
Queen Victoria's reign saw Britain's greatest construction explosion and in this programme Dimbleby travelled to
Manchester,
Leeds,
Newcastle and
Blackpool's
Tower Ballroom to find out how factories, town halls, sewers, churches, hospitals and dance halls were built in an attempt to deal with the rapidly expanding urban population.
Episode 6:The South: Dreams of Tomorrow In the final programme Dimbleby examines twentieth-century
architecture and explored suburban homes and
tower blocks in London and other buildings in the
South East of England. == Publications ==