This week, Lucinda Lambton visits Brodsworth House in Yorkshire, a mid- 1 9th century house packed with crumbling Victoriana which has been gradually decaying as years of rot and damp took theirtoll. English Heritage has managed to rescue the house and arrest the decay, but this is no ordinary restoration programme.
Spike Milligan , meanwhile, embarks on a second campaign to save the Elfin Oak, the burned-out trunk of a huge oak tree in London's Kensington
Gardens whose twisted contours were carved into an intricate scene of pixies and goblins at the turn of the century by woodcarver Ivor Innes. In the sixties,
Milligan led a campaign to save the oak from rotting away, but can he save it a second time?
Presenter Kirsty Wark takes the West Highland line sleeper service to Fort William, Britain's most awe-inspiring railway journey and the focus of protests in the face of efforts to close the service.
Series producer Basil Comely; Executive producers Roland Keatingand Sally Angel