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🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | The scene is familiar to all of us. |
0:06.0 | As the lush orchestral chords of a much-loved theme begin to play, |
0:10.0 | the camera sweeps up a long curving drive over green countryside, |
0:14.0 | and then just beyond a group of trees, it appears. |
0:18.0 | Large sprawling, often with towers and stunning carvings on the facade, the camera |
0:23.1 | takes us up to the very entrance, somehow as if by magic those grand doors open, and we are |
0:29.6 | there inside an English country house. For so many of us, that's how many of our favorite period |
0:36.9 | films and television dramas begin. |
0:40.3 | Sometimes the house itself plays a role in the drama that we're about to see, but more often |
0:45.3 | these grand estates and country houses serve as stage sets for the drama, romance, and occasionally |
0:51.3 | tragedy that play out within their walls. |
0:53.3 | To celebrate the opening of a new Downton Abbey feature film coming out in May, I'm focusing |
1:00.0 | on the world of the Great English Country House, and we are about to examine a very particular |
1:06.0 | aspect of these grand homes, the interiors, and the family collections of objects of art that they held and even |
1:13.3 | still hold today. And with me, I have a very special guest, Nick Dawes, a master appraiser, |
1:19.6 | and who will certainly be familiar to many listeners from his appearances on Antiques Roadshow. |
1:25.0 | Nick is an absolute expert on our subject today, so I invite you to pour a nice |
1:30.3 | cup of tea like me, and there is really no better episode with which to enjoy your cup of tea, |
1:36.5 | and walk with me through those ancient carved doors into the very center of the English |
1:42.7 | Country House. |
2:07.3 | Music into the very center of the English Country House. Hello, I'm Carl Raymond, the host of the Gilded Gentleman History podcast. Every two weeks, I take you, |
2:11.8 | my listeners, under the velvet ropes, and behind the glitter in the gold, to look a bit more closely at the social worlds of America's Gilded Age, France's Belle-Puck, and England's late Victorian and Edwardian periods. |
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