Your Places or Mine
A podcast about places and buildings, with tales about history and people. From author and publisher Clive Aslet and the architectural editor of Country Life, & John Goodall
Your Places or Mine
Latest Episodes
THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSE: DEVELPING AN IDEA
Clive is writing a book for Yale University Press on the Story of the American Country House. John indulges him by discussing the subject, with which Clive has been engaged since Yale published his The American Country House in 1990. ...
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The Story of Stowe House: A School of Marble and Memory
When the German Prince Puckler Muskau visited England in 1826, he told his divorced wife that it would take her ‘at least 420 years to see all the parks of England, of which there are undoubtedly at least 100,000, for they swarm in every direct...
Perhaps The Finest Street In Europe - The History of The Strand
‘Let’s all go down the Strand!’ ran a popular music hall song. But what sort of street were they singing about? The future Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli called it ‘perhaps the finest street in Europe’ in 1847. Which is quit...
Last of The Laskett? A Great British Garden Under Threat (EMERGENCY BROADCAST)
The Laskett in Herefordshire is one of the most remarkable gardens to have been created in the 20th century but now it’s future is threatened. Sir Roy Strong, scholar, museum director and the author of over 70 erudite books, and his theat...
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Story of Ampleforth Chapel, Yorkshire, Masterpiece of an Architectural Giant of the 20th Century, Sir Giles Scott
One of the most famous Catholic schools in Britain, Ampleforth College in Yorkshire this year celebrates the centenary of its chapel, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Scott has emerged in recent years as a colossus of 20th-century arc...
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