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

4)  Blenheim Palace
Phil explores the magnificent Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, 60 miles (100 kms) NW of London, and gets to know its formidable 18th century builders, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Sarah. Home of the 12th Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, this masterpiece of 18th century baroque architecture boasts over 300 years of history. Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, Phil's host, explains that the palace was a gift to the Marlborough family from their friend Queen Anne, a monument to the Duke's victory over the French at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. Blenheim Palace, designed for the 1st Duke of Marlborough by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is not only an outstanding exemplar of English baroque architecture, and also one of the best documented. Built between 1705 and 1722, it is one of England's largest houses. However, in the archive Phil discovers the build was plagued with problems: fall-outs with the architect, unpaid builders and costs beyond even the wildest estimates. Phil tots up a total in today's money that makes Blenheim the most expensive house he's ever visited.

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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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