Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British poster

Basic Info

First Air: May 19, 2016

Status: Returning Series

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: The Flat

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2016-06-02

Runtime: 60 min

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.

Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British

2016 1 seasons 3 episodes

Overview

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?