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."

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3)  Houghton Hall
Phil is off to Norfolk and a grand pile built by Britain's first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole. He discovers jaw dropping costs, bedrooms, and a giant silver bed. Houghton Hall is the residence of the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley. However, this grandiose country house in Norfolk was originally built, in 1722, for Sir Robert Walpole, the controversial first Prime Minister of Britain. Phil is keener than ever to uncover the building costs, because they were Sir Robert's best kept secret. As a guest of its current owner, Lord David Cholmondeley, Phil uncovers a house that was clearly built without any limit on costs: it features some of the finest carved stone interiors ever created, jaw-dropping bedrooms, 'beer taps' in a marble dining room, and the most extravagant thing Phil has ever seen: a 17-foot silver-embroidered bed. It's no wonder that Sir Robert wanted to keep the costs - and how he raised the money - a secret; the truth could have rocked Parliament. Phil explores Houghton's turbulent centuries of life since Sir Robert's time; from the gambling grandson who sold a world-class art collection - and even the front steps - to settle massive debts, to how it was even offered for sale in a flowery sales brochure, which Phil says is an estate agency treasure in itself. Phil also discovers how fortunate it can be to have royal neighbours nearby at Sandringham.

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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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