Nell Gwyn: Actress & Royal Mistress
How did a lowly orange seller become the most famous actress of her time, mistress of King Charles II? In 1660, King Charles II ruled that female stage roles must…
Conservative MP Antoinette Sandbach
and her family ties to the trans Atlantic slave trade
Touring a Mid-Century London Apartment Brimming with Eclectic Objects | Visitors’ Book
The World of Interiors presents Visitors’ Book with Harriet Parry. Harriet welcomes us into her London apartment, which is jam-packed with wonderful objects, vibrant colour and character in every nook…
Discover the Secret Garden House | A Modern Eco Home Hidden Behind a 300-year-old Wall
Our next Homing In film takes us to rural Devon, where we are welcomed into the remarkable home of Nigel and Eileen Dutt. A retired couple, Nigel and Eileen worked…
Inside Ben Pentreath’s Fully-Renovated Parsonage Nestled in the Dorset Countryside | Design Notes
Interior designer and author Ben Pentreath welcomes House & Garden into his Parsonage, tucked away in the English countryside in Dorset. “It’s an incredibly tranquil, secret little place,” says Ben…
Inside Richard E. Grant’s Georgian House at Christmas | Design Notes
Richard E. Grant welcomes us into his London home at Christmas. Filled with an abundance of treasures, Richard’s house sits within a walled garden littered with the dark foliage of…
Inside Sean Pritchard’s cosy Christmas cottage in the English countryside | Living with Style
When it comes to decorating for Christmas, award-winning gardener Sean Pritchard doesn't do things by halves. Despite the close quarters of his cosy Somerset cottage, there's not an inch that…
A Victorian cult: inside the strange world of the Agapemone
In the 1840s, a strange, secretive community known as the Agapemonites set up camp in Spaxton, Somerset. Presided over by a rogue Anglican priest who believed he had a hotline…
Shopping and snacking: a social history of the high street
Daring department store stunts. Warming cups of cocoa. Argumentative bartering with butchers. What can revisiting high streets gone by reveal about British social history? Historian Annie Gray takes listeners on…
Inside Cath Kidston’s Art-Filled Notting Hill Terrace | Design Notes
The house is nestled away and backs onto a large private garden square with views of a forest of old London plane trees filled with flocks of parakeets. “I have…