Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us

National Trust

Historian Bettany Hughes goes beyond the delights of teas and topiary to explore ten inspiring National Trust sites. Join Bettany as she travels around some of the most splendid sites in England, guided by our experts, to investigate their deep-rooted connections to Europe and the wider world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us

Episodes (11)

Dec 26, 2016 2 Willow Rd
Dec 19, 2016 Orford Ness
Dec 12, 2016 Upton House

Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us

Dec 26, 2016
32 MB

Bettany takes a tour of 2 Willow Road in Hampstead with National Trust volunteer John Escolme. The house was built by Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger both as family home and manifesto of his Modernist ideals. Goldfinger is famous for designing Trellick Tower in West London to solve the post-war housing crisis. Despite its nadir in the 1970s when Trellick became known as ‘the tower of terror’, it’s now something of a cultural icon, although Erno never lived to see its rehabilitation. Bettany explores the way this remarkable tweed-wearing émigré brought the Bauhaus to Britain with Goldfinger’s biographer Nigel Warburton, and how at...

Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us

2 Willow Rd

National Trust

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