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

2)  Belvoir Castle
When is a stately home not a stately home? When it's a stately castle. In Leicestershire, Phil tries some medieval pest control and finds evidence of an aristocratic sex scandal and a lost railway.
Belvoir in Leicestershire is the Manners family's home and the seat of the Dukes of Rutland. In 1799, the 5th Duke and his ambitious wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, turned it into their own personal fairy tale castle. A sneak peek behind the scenes at Belvoir Castle reveals how a series of powerful Duchesses masterminded its transformation from 'old-fashioned' stately pile to Britain's most romantic castle.
Phil discovers how the fifth Duchess and her husband John Henry Manners sold the equivalent of L283million worth of land and property to turn Belvoir into their neo-Gothic dream home, played host to King George IV, and - in a sign of their lavish tastes - ploughed through 1,600 bottles of wine and 46 gallons of port and rum at the two-week long bash they threw to mark the Duke's 21st birthday.

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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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