At Home with the British (Home from Home) – BBC4
December 16th, 2015
Please be aware this article is out of date and has been superseded by these three:-
Dan Cruickshank: At Home With The British – Pt3 – BBC4 – preview
Dan Cruickshank: At Home With The British – Pt2 – BBC4 – preview
Dan Cruickshank: At Home With The British – Pt1 – BBC4 – preview
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If you choose to read on be aware what follows is information I found while trying to find out about the programme before it was broadcast.
UPDATE 2nd May: Stoneleigh
At the beginning of August it began to unfold: the BBC was interested in using Stoneleigh as the basis for a programme on domestic architecture. A series called Home from Home [At Home with the British], presented by Dan Cruickshank and made in collaboration with [the] RIBA, will be aired on BBC 4 in the New Year and charts the architectural development and social history of three typical British house types – the cottage, the terraced house and the flat.
Over the past eight weeks the director, presenter and researcher have made many visits to Stoneleigh finding out about the village’s history and its past connection to the Abbey. Very many houses have been visited and as this goes to press filming will begin at the Food Beer and Craft Market, at the Club and at the Abbey itself. It already seems that everyone you bump into has chatted to them at some point! It will be interesting to see how the project progresses; watch this space!
https://www.stoneleighvillage.org.uk
Stoneleigh is a Warwickshire village close to Kenilworth, Leamington Spa and Warwick and less than 4 miles from the centre of Coventry.There are 68 listed buildings in Stoneleigh.
Cressingham Gardens: ITV London News
April 16th, 2015
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Last night ITV devoted their programme to the London housing crisis in the course of which they visited Cressingham Gardens Estate. That clip is linked above and the 30m programme from the link below.
Sorry the clips are no longer on Youtube. If you have access to them please let me know and I will re-link them.
Regeneration Game – Vice – Part One
March 31st, 2015
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In part one of Regeneration Game, host Daisy-May Hudson visits the Carpenters Estate in Newham, the borough with the biggest homelessness crisis in London. With Westfield shopping centre, the Olympic site and excellent transport links surrounding the area, the land on which people’s homes stand has rocketed in value. The council has said the Carpenters Estate is no longer “viable” and has been slowly trying to relocate residents over the last eight years – but a group of local mums are leading the fight back.
Where We Live Now – all five films
March 26th, 2014
City of Towers – Christopher Booker 1979 (fb Monday 19th Feb 1979) Download
Three Streets in the Country – Michael Frayn / Dennis Marks – 1979 (fb Tuesday 20th Feb 1979)
New Town Home Town – Colin Ward – 1979 (fb Wed 21st Feb 1979) via BBC
Architecture for Everyman – Patrick Nuttgens – 1979 (fb Thursday 22nd Feb 1979)
The Country and the City – Raymond Williams – 1979 (fb Friday 23rd Feb 1979)
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Where We Live Now : City of Towers – a set back
February 17th, 2014
The story so far . . .
I’ve waited 35 years to see this again, in full, at original quality. If you’ve got a good copy please get in touch, you know where I am. Thank you.
BBC Post war architecture collection contains some wonderful stuff including one of the five Where We Live Now films.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01s0hpy/post-war-architecture
Housing films on YouTube and Vimeo
January 17th, 2014
This page is out of date now so I’ve deleted the links. You can find working links in other articles including the Film page. Use the Search box to look for particular films.
Heritage! – The Battle for Britain’s past
January 11th, 2014
A BBC documentary series in three parts last shown in March 2013 tells the story of how the National Trust and English Heritage came about featuring well known figures such as Simon Thurley (EH), Simon Jenkins (NT), Gavin Stamp, Dan Cruikshank, Candida Lycett Green, and other well known figures shown in documentary footage such as Sir John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner.
It is a fascinating series of which part three is to me the most interesting covering the post-war period and ending with the story of the Euston Arch.
Three Streets in the Country – Michael Frayn
November 3rd, 2012
This film formed part two of the five day series Where We Live Now, in the week beginning Monday 19th February 1979. I was lucky enough to see it at Kings College London on Friday 12th February 2010.
BBC Archive – London
October 7th, 2012
This weekend I discovered some old films about London on the BBC website, and have been enjoying a look back to the 1950s and 60s. In case you enjoy this sort of thing too I’m posting this brief article to alert you to the fact that you can be reminded of childhood memories or find out what it looked like in our parents time and how London has changed since.
City of Towers – Christopher Booker – BBC 1979
August 27th, 2011
City of Towers is a two hour documentary made by Christopher Booker for the BBC, first broadcast in 1979 and a master class in the history of Modernism that covers its birth from ideas first put forward by Antonio Sant’Elia, Auguste Perret and Le Corbusier in the early part of the Twentieth Century . . .
. . . to its fall from grace in the latter part of the same century when its supposed beneficiaries, the people who had to live in the concrete blocks that followed the Modernist model, rebelled, and it came to be seen for what it truly was, a failed philosophy.