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An English-man's Home

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1 Of all the great things that the English have invented and part of the credit of the national character, the most perfect, the most characteristic, the only one they have mastered completely in all its details so that it becomes a compendious illustration of their social genius and their manners. is the well-appointed, well-administered, well
Kaleidoscope samples life in the English country house - and garden - as John Jacob , with Mark Girouard , reflects on how families have used the houses which architects and craftsmen built for them.
Producer JOHN POWELL

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Unknown:
John Jacob
Unknown:
Mark Girouard
Producer:
John Powell
fillcd, country house:
Henry James
Source: Radio Times

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