The Curious House Guest is a British television documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two in 2005. It is written and presented by Jeremy Musson, an architectural historian and journalist with Country Life. In each episode he visits a historic private house and combines observations on architecture with insights into the lives of the owners.
Episode list Series one, 2005 Chillingham Castle, Northumberland Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucester Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire Castle Leslie, Monaghan Bellamont House, Dorset Bryngwyn Hall, Bwlch-y-Cibau, Llanfyllin, Powys
Series two, 2006 Holkham Hall, Norfolk Ninfa, Lazio, Italy Vann, Surrey (architect: W.D. Caroe) Hampden Great House, Jamaica Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire (owner: Sir Reresby Sitwell) Hippo Point, Kenya Stradey Castle, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire Provender House, Kent (owner: Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff)
See also Living with Modernism
External links
Podcast of Holkham Hall episode Diary of a Curious House Guest