Phil Spencers Stately Homes: Series 2

History Documentary hosted by Phil Spencer, published by Channel 4 in 2018 - English narration



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Property enthusiast and surveyor Phil Spencer returns for a grand tour of four of our country's finest - and most extravagant - country houses, to uncover the dramatic stories of their creation.
Phil travels around Britain exploring some of the country's finest stately homes and gardens. Each episode focuses on a particular building, discovering the hidden history behind the commission of the structure and what materials were used in its construction. The host discusses the technical challenges the labour force were likely to have faced when building at such a monumental scale. Phil will be given VIP access and a key to the archive rooms to delve into the secrets of the house, including eye watering building costs.
Taking each house back to the drawing board, Phil is given unprecedented access into fascinating stately home archives, to reveal the incredible ambition of the house's creators, as well as the monumental quantities of materials, labour - and money - involved in turning their flights of fancy into bricks and mortar. In each episode, Phil lifts the facade of a house unique in its ambition, scale and taste. On his journey, Phil will visit the decadent stately homes of Longleat, Belvoir Castle, Blenheim Palace and Houghton Hall.
With a chance to try his hand at craft and restoration, and insight from the current custodians, (in many cases descendants of the original owners) Phil will discover how these homes became seats of power - and play - and what the buildings and estates are really like to own. Finally he attempts to put a figure on the original building costs and what they represent in today's money.
Phil says; "It's an absolute privilege to work on this series again and to have behind the scenes access to the houses, families and people that live and work there and to have an understanding of what it takes to look after these stately homes. It's fascinating to delve into the architectural history to discover what it took to build these homes, and the stories behind those that lived there."

A Mayfly Television Ltd Production for Channel 4

1)  Longleat
Property enthusiast Phil Spencer has to mind the lions as he starts the second series surveying the lavish interiors and elaborate gardens at Longleat. Phil hears tales of lovesick ghosts as he surveys Longleat's lavish interior decor and some of the most elaborate gardening in history. Phil Spencer's Stately Homes drops by the famous mansion and takes an intimate tour of the house, giving us a glimpse of the history and beauty that have been preserved for hundreds of years. The Longleat House was one of the very first and finest prodigy houses built during the Elizabethan period by Sir John Thynn. During Phil Spencer's visit to the Longleat archives, he found out that Sir John Thynn bought the property in 1531 for L53 during England's peaceful and quiet period. And since he was hugely ambitious and very good at making money, he built an empire quite quickly-and so the Longleat House was born. Longleat House took 12 years to build, from 1568 to 1580 by 112 crafstmen and laborers working round the clock. There are a total of 128 rooms and 365 windows imported from Spain. In total, the Longleat House stands at 3,486 m2, and apart from the whole mansion, it comes with 9,000 acres of estate that's used as gardens and safari. For 450 years, this gargantuan mansion stood proud in Wiltshire, England, where generations of the Thynn family lived. Today, the Longleat House continues to be a jewel in the English countryside, open for public tours and visits. Who would've thought that this property that cost more than L31 million to build (in today's money) was built by a servant?

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
Video Bitrate: 3 000 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1920x1080
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AAC (LC)
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s VBR 48.0 kHz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 47 min
Number Of Parts: 4
Part Size: 1.03 GB
Source: WEB DL
Capper: DocFreak08

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