Following on from Secrets Of The Museum, which explored the V&A’s archives and exhibitions, BBC Arts has commissioned a new series exploring another of Britain’s cultural institutions, the National Trust.
Reflecting the national scale and importance of the National Trust’s many properties and the engaging, committed staff and volunteers who care for them, the series uncovers the hidden stories of a myriad of wonderful buildings and objects.
Stories range from the restorationof an ornate nineteenth-century Chinese bridge at Biddulph Grange Garden nearStoke-on-Trent, to discovering how the Trust has brought Paul McCartney’s childhood home back to life using stone-pattern wallpaper; seeing how the experts clean a model of a Normandy harbour used by Winston Churchill in the planning of D-Day and the renovation of Vita Sackville-West’s writing room at Sissinghurst Castle. The series also showcases stories of the gardens and landscapes within which these properties sit.