One Foot in the Past S07 E07 Episode 7

In this last programme in the series, Kirsty Wark looks into the requisitioning of railings during the Second World War that amounted to a propaganda stunt, and offers a preview of the meticulously refurbished Eltham Palace in south London. Dan Cruickshank travels back to the year 999 to find medieval pre-millennium society gripped by apocalyptic fear. Ludovic Kennedy returns to Edinburgh and, as he revisits his family's Georgian homes, tells the story of the city's glorious past.