A series of six programmes with Valerie Singleton, who visits some great houses where famous people lived and worked.

With Michael Hordern as the voice of Charles Darwin
'The house is ugly, neither new nor old, but it has a capital study.' In this study Charles Darwin was to make one of the most shattering discoveries since the beginning of mankind. It was also a place where one of his ten children might burst in at any moment in search of sticking plaster or string.