The Manor Reborn

Presented by Penelope Keith and Paul Martin, The Manor Reborn sees a team of historians, experts and volunteers reinterpreting 500-year-old Avebury Manor in Wiltshire, putting the country house in to a national and historic perspective.

Work at Avebury Manor finally gets under way, but will the National Trust accept the outlandish colour scheme being proposed for the Queen's bedroom? Designer Russell Sage sets about renovating the run-down bed he bought at auction into a four-poster fit for Tudor nobles. Penelope Keith and Paul Martin continue on their travels across the country for inspiration, enlisting the help of master craftsmen to transform neglected Avebury Manor into a top National Trust property.

Penelope attempts to get to grips with gorging Georgians as Paul is in China to see the making of the most exotic wallpaper commissioned for many years. The experts end up clashing over the royal bed, and the opening of the Victorian kitchen garden ends up coming under threat by hungry rabbits and also from an invasion of an endangered species.

Designer Russell Sage and the historical experts attempt to get the house finished in time for it's grand reopening. The wallpaper is held up in customs though and a a Queen Anne bed ends up being too big for the room.