Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores how each age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the preoccupations of the day
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Land Plan
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen considers Feargus O'Connor's passionate attempt to dignify people by ensuring everyone had their own plot of land through the Chartists Land Plan.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - Gertrude Jekyll and the Suburban Countryside
Laurence considers how Gertrude Jekyll transformed the garden from a lawn and parterres into a microcosm of the natural world.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - Healing in the Open Air
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores the idea of the countryside as a place for healing in the wake of the unprecedented horrors of the First World War.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - Humphry Repton
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores changing ideas about the countryside, in this programme he looks to the work of Humphry Repton.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - Octavia Hill
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen visits Toyes Hill, the first area of land to be held in Trust for the nation.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - The Brotherhood of Ruralists
Laurence hears how a group of artists, fed up with the restrictive art scene of the capital, set up the Brotherhood of Ruralists on 21st March 1975.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - The Brotherhood of Ruralists
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen looks to the early days of the self sufficiency movement - an ideology that was nurtured by John Seymour.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - The Sporting Estate
Laurence explores the idea of the sporting estate, at its zenith in the 19th century. Hunting and shooting were increasingly popular with the newly rich Victorians.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - Villadom in the Cotswolds
Escaping the city for the countryside is as old as the Romans. Llewelyn-Bowen visits the Roman villa at Chedworth, near his home in Gloucestershire.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - William Wordsworth and the Sublime Landscape
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen continues his series exploring ideas of the countryside over the last 200 years.
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