Programmes / Simon Thurley
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- Alan Clark
- Alan Davies
- Alexei Sayle
- Andrew Graham-Dixon
- Chris Patten
- Dan Cruickshank
- David Starkey
- Deborah Davies
- Dr. Janina Ramirez
- Gus Casely-Hayford
- Howard Jacobson
- Janet Street-Porter
- Jon Snow
- Matt Collings
- Nick Cook
- Robert Hughes
- Sarah Simblet
- Simon Schama
- Simon Thurley
- Sir Roy Strong
- Terry Jones
- Vic Reeves
An observational documentary series made over four years, following four stories of properties whose conservation falls under the guardianship of English Heritage and its controversial chief executive, Simon Thurley.
Simon Thurley, CEO of English Heritage and architectural advisor to the Queen and Prime Minister, takes us inside the buildings whose tenants rule the world. Downing Street, The White House and The Kremlin. Love, hate, treachery, barbarity, and base politics have all left their mark, the presidents...
Paranoid, secretive, property-crazed – that’s us. Simon Thurley, the Chief Executive of English Heritage, argues that the buildings of Britain - from Dover Castle to the humble terraced house – could have been built nowhere else and by nobody else.



