Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-12 of 12
- What actually ARE the 'Cotswolds'? Despite touring the area as a budding young Stratford actress in 1963, Penelope has never been sure about quite what defines this famous region. Starting in the celebrated 'chocolate box' village of Bibury, she sets off to reveal an unspoilt world of wealth - ancient and modern - created originally by sheep, wool and weaving. Penelope's friend Jilly Cooper - a Cotswold villager since 1982 - is on hand to explain the celebrity obsession with this region, and reveal some of the latest names to be seen here.
- Penelope begins her journey with a trip to East Anglia. While there, she attends a regatta on the Norfolk Broads, takes to the skies over the village of Little Snoring, learns to speak like a native of the county and attends a fete - complete with a performance by wheelbarrow display team the Red Sparrows.
- 2014– 47m9.0 (17)TV EpisodeIn this episode, Penelope travels to the industrial heartlands of north-west England and north Wales, where she explores a Victorian garden in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, finds out about burgeoning tourism in Snowdonia, and goes to her first music festival.
- Penelope concludes her first trip with visits to Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, where she sees villages that have been used on film and TV. These include the community where To the Manor Born was filmed, and the setting of Steven Spielberg's War Horse, Castle Combe, where she also discovers a motor racing circuit.
- Penelope is in the land of rugged coastal communities and cliff-edge fishing villages, but also of huge numbers of holiday makers. She visits the most exposed theatre in the country and Fowey Harbour.
- The actress learns about life in the renowned landscape of Cumbria. The wonder of the Lake District cannot be ignored, but from Morecambe Bay to the Pennines, Penny finds there is much more to life in a Cumbrian village than tourists and tea shops, and all of it owes a great deal to the dramatic local geography. Along the way she meets a community buying its local mountain, indulges in the unique Cumbrian pursuit of hound trailing and visits the home of Sticky Toffee Pudding.
- Penelope travels through Royal Deeside, a remote part of Aberdeenshire. It's a land of enormous estates served by tiny communities. Penelope visits the few villages that exist and explores how important Queen Victoria was in shaping modern Deeside. She takes to the skies in a glider, visits the station built for Queen Victoria in the 1860s, goes to the Highland Games arena for the first time since the 1950s and discovers the secrets of the present Queen's vegetable patch at Balmoral.
- In the final episode of the series, Penelope is in East Sussex and Kent - a rural, unspoilt swath of the busy south-east that never ceases to surprise and impress. She finds a remarkable hidden village that hasn't changed in almost a century, discovers the origins of the English Country Garden and sees a war memorial which was helped to be established by Rudyard Kipling.
- Accompanied by her Batsford Guide, Penelope's journey starts with a ferry ride across Loch Fyne, to the Kintyre peninsula - made famous, thanks to Paul McCartney, by its southern tip. Penelope learns about the local Viking saga, now heartily celebrated by the villagers of Tarbert, before venturing north to see how the Crinan Canal, with the help of a holidaying Queen Victoria, transformed life here and created Scotland's most beautiful short cut.
- From puddings and tea, to flat caps and whippets, the age-old images of Yorkshire are known across the world. But what's the reality? Penelope's Batsford guide suggests there's a "spirit of Yorkshire", so from dales, to moors, to coast, she takes to the road to find out.
- With its English accents, tea shops terraces, and habit of attracting writers like Virginia Woolf, refined little Manorbier quickly shows Penelope that Pembrokeshire enjoys a history all of its own. 'Little England Beyond Wales' is a cultural legacy stretching back 900yrs to when the Normans annexed the south of the county for themselves and built mighty Manorbier Castle.
- 2014– 47m9.1 (8)TV EpisodeIn this beautiful one-off, Penelope puts together a selection of her favourites - from Devon and Cornwall to the stunning shores of the Lake District and the wilds of Scotland.