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If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

Lucy Worsley

Emma Hindley

Dan Adamson

Daisy Goodwin

If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home: Episode 4: The Kitchen

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Episode 4: The Kitchen

The Kitchen

BBC Four - If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home, The Kitchen

A history of the British kitchen, from Tudor baking to 1950s labour-saving gadgets.

Lucy Worsley looks at the history of the kitchen by baking bread in a Tudor kitchen, doing a week's Victorian re-cycling and trying out 1950s labour-saving gadgets.

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, ends the series by looking at the room we now spend the most money on, but was once thought of as the most dirty, dangerous and undesirable room in the house - the kitchen. From baking bread in a Tudor kitchen to spit-roasting mutton with a dog to doing a week's Victorian re-cycling to trying out 1950s labour-saving gadgets, Lucy tracks the changes that have turned the kitchen from a room of hard work into the appliance-packed room we know today.

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A journey through domestic history, exploring the British home through four rooms

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four rooms, meeting experts and historians on the way

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