David Dimbleby
The broadcaster gives an illustrated talk about the nation’s architecture, from the palaces to the out-of-town shopping malls.
Nick Rosen
From survivalist and hippy homes to new environmental adventurers, Rosen takes a journey outside the system of telephone, water and power.
Helena Attlee
Five centuries of high Italian style from Petrarch and the Medici, to the picturesque masterpieces of the C19th, and the angular modernism of today.
TJ Hughes, Simon Jenkins
Often in a landscape spiritually charged, Welsh churches tell us about medieval times, the Age of Saints that came before, and of the pagan Celtic times before that.
Alain de Botton
From the humble terraced house to some of the world’s most renowned buildings, the writer and thinker considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel; and how we could learn to build in ways that would increase our chances of happiness.