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The Curious House Guest (2005)

The Curious House Guest poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2 seasons, 14 episodes
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Jeremy Musson visits historic private houses in Britain. He talks with the owners about living there and looks at the architecture.

slow-pacedinformativeobservationalconversationalgentlereflectiveintimatenostalgic

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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