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How We Built Britain

How We Built Britain is a series of six television documentaries produced by the BBC in 2007 and repeated in 2008. The series was written and presented by broadcaster David Dimbleby. In the series Dimbleby visits some of Britain's great historic buildings and examined their impact on Britain's architectural and social history.

The series was a follow-up to Dimbleby's 2005 BBC One series, A Picture of Britain, which celebrates British and Irish paintings, poetry, music, and landscapes.

Episode 1: The East: A New Dawn

Dimbleby begins his tour of Britain's historic buildings in Ely in Ely Cathedral before moving on to Hedingham Castle, Norwich and Lavenham. He visited Walsingham and the Slipper Chapel before finishing at the University of Cambridge's King's College Chapel.

Episode 2: The Heart of England: Living It Up

In this programme Dimbleby examines how England had been changed by the Elizabethan Renaissance and visited stately homes including Burghley House, Harvington Hall, the Triangular Lodge and Chastleton House, one of Britain's most complete Jacobean houses.

Episode 3: Scotland: Towering Ambitions

In this episode Dimbleby travels north to discover how Scotland developed its own distinctive building style. During the programme he visited Stirling Castle, Dunrobin Castle, Gearrannan on the Isle of Lewis and Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art before finishing at the new Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh.

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