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Dan Cruickshank & The House That Wouldn't Die

Dan Cruickshank & The House That Wouldn't Die

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 8, 2003

Runtime

0h 28m

Genres

Documentary, History

Original Title

Dan Cruickshank & The House That Wouldn't Die

Production Companies

BBC

Director

Jonty Claypole

Description

This unique recreation of an 18th-century home, in London's Spitalfields, has to be seen to be believed. Dan Cruickshank smells the rotting food and warms his hands by the roaring fires and asks whether this living museum is really more accurate than a National Trust treasure, or just an eccentric one-off from its outlandish Californian creator, the late Dennis Severs. A follow-up of sorts to the 1985 BBC series Ours to Keep episode "Incomers" focused on this residence.