The Country House Revealed

History Documentary hosted by Dan Cruickshank, published by BBC in 2012 - English narration


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The Country House Revealed
Historian Dan Cruickshank is invited through the closed doors of six of Britain's greatest private houses in an illuminating and surprising journey through our architectural history. These fascinating buildings remain private homes and closed to the public, but their owners have allowed Dan Cruickshank to roam the corridors, tease out each home's story - who built them, lived in them and lost them - and uncover tales of excess and profligacy, power and ambition. 


1)  South Wraxall 
In the first of a six part series visiting houses never before open to public view, architectural historian Dan Cruickshank takes an exclusive tour around one of Britain's oldest country homes - an immaculately preserved relic of the Mediaeval and Tudor ages. Hidden in the depths of the Wiltshire countryside, South Wraxall Manor was built by a family with a fascinating but dramatic and chequered history - the Longs. From lowly origins as descendants of a livestock rustler they rose through the Tudor period to become knights of the realm, friends of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, and one of the most powerful dynasties in England. Along the way Cruickshank discovers how a brutal family murder inspired one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, examines how the Longs' skulduggery and connivance brought them unprecedented wealth, and meets both the last member of the Long family to live there and the house's current owner - Gela Nash-Taylor, founder of the American fashion house Juicy Couture


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 * Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
 * Video Bitrate: 1567 kbps
 * Video Resolution: 832 x 464
 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1.793 (16:9)
 * Frames Per Second: 25
 * Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3)
 * Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s AC3 48000 Hz
 * Audio Streams: 2
 * Audio Languages: English
 * RunTime Per Part: 59.Mins
 * Number Of Parts: 6
 * Part Size: 746 MB
 * Encoded by: Harry65
 * Source: DVD



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1)  Further Information 
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-country-house-revealed-a-secret-history-of-the-british-ancestral-home-by-dan-cruickshank-2265621.html