The National Trust is as much a part of our lives as the Queen Mother or Coronation Street. Set up in 1885, its aim was to preserve buildings and land for ever. But critics argue that the Trust presents an image of a golden age which did not exist. Some stately homes were built with the profits from the slave trade or political corruption, and the lives of those below stairs are sometimes neglected or ignored. In this documentary presented by John Dunn , the man who will take the National Trust into its next century, Martin Drury. explains how he sees its role.
A KT production