Lucinda Lambton considers Eastern influences in evidence in some architecture around Britain.
Lucinda Lambton visits Southside House in Wimbledon and investigates the house which is crammed with magical and romantic objects gathered over the centuries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lucinda Lambton marvels at some of the beautiful and macabre works of art that can be created from the lifelike medium of wax.
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.
Looks at architectural curiosities situated near the M25 motorway.
Visits the island of Rhum in the Inner Hebrides and focuses on Kinloch Castle, a sumptuous Edwardian building which is now a hotel.
Visits architectural structures and interiors that commemorate loved ones.
Looks at the obelisks and pyramids of All Souls cemetry in Kensal Green, London.
Looks at the art of building underground.
Celebrates the architectural heritage of Belfast.
Linda Lambton visits an ancient house crammed to the brim with romantic and magical objects.
Lucinda Lambton visits Blackpool.
Lucinda Lambton visits Heathrow
Lucinda Lambton visits East Cliff Hall, an extraordinary house in Bournemouth.
Lucinda Lambton looks at some unusual forms of home entertainment, such as opera houses, picturedromes, ballrooms etc
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.
Lucinda Lambton looks at how architects in Oxford and Cambridge are rediscovering the potential of concrete.
Looks at the home of Sir John Soane in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Looks at structures built to house the dead.
Looks at Mount Stewart, a house created at the turn of the century by the third Marquis of Bute.