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Secrets of the Castle

2014 · 1 season

A calm, curious hands-on history lesson, watching craftspeople solve practical problems with medieval tools in a sunlit French quarry.

Created by
Stuart Elliott, Giulia Clark
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Tom Pinfold
Overview
How do you build a medieval castle from scratch? Domestic historian Ruth Goodman and archeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold make perhaps their most ambitious foray into the past as they head to France to take part in a build that has been underway since 1997. Our intrepid history adventurers join this magnificent construction at Guédelon Castle to recreate authentic medieval castle living from within its rising walls.

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Created by
Stuart Elliott, Giulia Clark
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Tom Pinfold
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    • work
    • education
    • art
    • ambition
    • nature
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    • countryside
    • single country house
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    contemporary
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    family
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    • true story
    • serialised
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    Genres
    documentary
    Created by
    Stuart Elliott, Giulia Clark, Blythe Tinker, Lindsay Hill
    Starring
    Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Tom Pinfold, Paul McGann
    Length
    1 seasons, 5 episodes, 60 min each
    Network
    BBC Two
    Country
    United Kingdom
    Languages
    English

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