All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 E is for Eastern

    • April 11, 1990
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton considers Eastern influences in evidence in some architecture around Britain.

  • S01E02 S is for Southside

    • April 18, 1990
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton visits Southside House in Wimbledon and investigates the house which is crammed with magical and romantic objects gathered over the centuries.

  • S01E03 V is for Vicars

    • April 25, 1990
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton pays homage to a host of distinguised or unusual pastors, parsons and prelates, and, in particular those who delight in animals, including: Jack Russell, creator fo the Jack Russell terrier, Tom Steel, and the famed Rev. W.W.Awdry.

  • S01E04 T is for Temples

    • May 2, 1990
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton looks at different temples including: the Fishing Temple on the Thames at Monkey Island; the ruined Mock Temple at Virginia Water, Surrey, with imitation columns of Roman ruins in Libya; a Grecian temple in theGreat Eastern Hotel; one at Gatton Town Hall; and, in Wimbledon, the only Thai temple in Europe and the only one to be decorated with a modern mural.

  • S01E05 D is for Dyson's

    • May 9, 1990
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton visit the jewellers, watch and clock makers Dyson's shop in Leeds, which has remained unchanged for over a hundred years, and is still run by the founder's great-grand daughter, Miss Grace Dyson.

  • S01E06 A is for Art Nouveau

    • May 16, 1990
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton looks at examples of architecture that incorporate art nouveau style, including: the colourful facade of the Everards Building, Bristol; the Watts Chapel at Compton, Surrey, designed, built, and decorated by Mary Watts, who had never built anything befor; and, the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus by artist Alfred Gilbert.

  • S01E07 W is for Wax

    • May 23, 1990
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton marvels at some of the beautiful and macabre works of art that can be created from the lifelike medium of wax.

  • S01E08 G is for Glazed

    • May 30, 1990
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton looks at tiles in the Royal Dairy at the Home Farm, Windsor, in the memorial cloister at Postman's Park in the City of London, and replica tiles of the Kensington Alphabet.

Season 2

  • S02E01 M is for M25

    • February 15, 1993
    • BBC Two

    Looks at architectural curiosities situated near the M25 motorway.

  • S02E02 R is for Rhum

    • February 22, 1993
    • BBC Two

    Visits the island of Rhum in the Inner Hebrides and focuses on Kinloch Castle, a sumptuous Edwardian building which is now a hotel.

  • S02E03 L is for Loved Ones

    • March 1, 1993
    • BBC Two

    Visits architectural structures and interiors that commemorate loved ones.

  • S02E04 K is for Kensal Green

    • March 8, 1993
    • BBC Two

    Looks at the obelisks and pyramids of All Souls cemetry in Kensal Green, London.

  • S02E05 U is for Under the Ground

    • March 15, 1993
    • BBC Two

    Looks at the art of building underground.

  • S02E06 B is for Belfast

    • March 22, 1993
    • BBC Two

    Celebrates the architectural heritage of Belfast.

  • S02E07 S is for Southside

    • March 29, 1993
    • BBC Two

    Linda Lambton visits an ancient house crammed to the brim with romantic and magical objects.

Season 3

  • S03E01 F is for Fun Days Out

    • January 9, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton visits Blackpool.

  • S03E02 H is for Heathrow

    • January 16, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton visits Heathrow

  • S03E03 D is for Dorset's Delight

    • January 23, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton visits East Cliff Hall, an extraordinary house in Bournemouth.

  • S03E04 P is for Prisoners of War

    • January 30, 1995
    • BBC Two

  • S03E05 Q is for Quiet Evenings In

    • February 6, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton looks at some unusual forms of home entertainment, such as opera houses, picturedromes, ballrooms etc

  • S03E06 X is for Xanadu, near Ludlow

    • February 20, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Visits Stokesay Court whose contents fetched £42million in a four day auction in September 1994. This was the home of industrialist John Derby Allcroft and many of its contents were packed away in the attic before the second world war, so that at the timne of auction many objects were in pristine condition.

  • S03E07 C is for Concrete

    • February 27, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Lucinda Lambton looks at how architects in Oxford and Cambridge are rediscovering the potential of concrete.

  • S03E08 J is for Sir John's Museum

    • March 6, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Looks at the home of Sir John Soane in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

  • S03E09 O is for Opulent Endings

    • March 13, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Looks at structures built to house the dead.

  • S03E10 I is for Isle of Bute

    • April 10, 1995
    • BBC Two

    Looks at Mount Stewart, a house created at the turn of the century by the third Marquis of Bute.