Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British
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Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British

Dan Cruickshank takes an up-close-and-personal look at the place we are all familiar with but rarely stop to question – our home. Why are those stairs at that angle? Why is the kitchen at the back of the house? Why are some houses made of wattle and daub, and some of brick? And why do some live in a terrace and some in a flat? How did the British home end up looking the way it does – and why?

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Status

Returning Series

Original Name

Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British

First Air Date

May 19, 2016

Last Air Date

June 2, 2016

Seasons

1

Episodes

3

Language

English

Production Companies

Oxford Film and Television

Networks

The Flat
S01E03

The Flat

If modern Britain lives in a terrace house and loves a cottage, it cannot make its mind up about the high-rise flat. Is the skyscraper a blot on the landscape, or the answer to the national housing crisis? For Dan Cruickshank, the idea of living high above the city streets really is the future once again. 21st-century London is the site of an extraordinary building boom. Hundreds of residential high-rise towers are being built at record speed, many hugely controversial, as private developers cotton on to what social housing idealists realised 60 years ago.

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