Laurence Llewelyn-bowen's Escape To The Country

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01Humphry Repton20100404Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores changing ideas about the countryside.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

01Humphry Repton2010040420101025 (R4)Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores changing ideas about the countryside.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

02William Wordsworth And The Sublime Landscape20100411How Wordsworth's poetry has influenced thinking about nature ever since.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

02William Wordsworth And The Sublime Landscape2010041120101026 (R4)How Wordsworth's poetry has influenced thinking about nature ever since.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

03The Sporting Estate20100418Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores the idea of the sporting estate.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

03The Sporting Estate2010041820101027 (R4)Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores the idea of the sporting estate.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

04Feargus O'connor And The Chartist Land Plan2010042520101028 (R4)The legacy of O'Connor's 1842 plan for poor Britons to plough their own furrow.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

05Octavia Hill20100502How Octavia set up the National Trust, based on her belief in the importance of nature.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

05Octavia Hill2010050220101029 (R4)How Octavia set up the National Trust, based on her belief in the importance of nature.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

06Healing In The Open Air20100509How the rural landscape came to be seen as a place of healing for First World War veterans

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

06Healing In The Open Air2010050920101101 (R4)How the rural landscape came to be seen as a place of healing for First World War veterans

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

07Gertrude Jekyll And The Suburban Countryside20100516How gardens became more than just lawns and borders.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

07Gertrude Jekyll And The Suburban Countryside2010051620101102 (R4)How gardens became more than just lawns and borders.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

08The Brotherhood Of Ruralists - Part 12010052320101103 (R4)How Mother Nature inspired a group of 1970s artists to paint rural life in the countryside

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

How Mother Nature inspired a group of 1970s artists to paint rural life in the countryside

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

09The Brotherhood Of Ruralists - Part 220100530How John Seymour's 1976 Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency proved a hit with city dwellers.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

09The Brotherhood Of Ruralists - Part 22010053020101104 (R4)How John Seymour's 1976 Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency proved a hit with city dwellers.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

10Villadom In The Cotswolds20100606How the idea of escaping to the countryside is as old as the Romans.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day

10Villadom In The Cotswolds2010060620101105 (R4)How the idea of escaping to the countryside is as old as the Romans.

How each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day