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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 1: The Living Room

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Episode 1: The Living Room

The Living Room

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

A history of the living room, from a medieval great hall to a Victorian parlour.

Lucy Worsley looks at the history of the living room from a medieval great hall, through a Georgian drawing room, to a grand country house and a Victorian parlour.

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, looks at the room that has had more names and been through more changes than any other in the house. She tries out the communal medieval great hall, holds a candlelit tea party in a Georgian drawing room, explores the development of taste in a grand country house, discovers the wonders that gas and electric lighting brought to the Victorian parlour, and experiences leisure 1950s style. Includes interviews with historian Amanda Vickery and writer Adrian Tinniswood.

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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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