Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom

  • Premiered: Nov 2014
  • Episodes: 5
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Tuesday
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Why Build a Castle?
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 18, 2014
Peter and Tom set to work straight away learning the skills of the medieval stonemasons to construct a beautiful spiral staircase. After digging stone out of the quarry they take it to .. show full overview
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Defending the Castle
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Air date
Nov 25, 2014
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back as they learn how to build a medieval castle using the same tools, techniques and materials .. show full overview
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Inside the Castle
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Air date
Dec 02, 2014
Ruth, Peter and Tom enter the surprisingly colourful world of medieval interior design. Peter and Tom render and limewash the inside walls of a guard tower, transforming its dark stone .. show full overview
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The Castle's Community of Skills
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Air date
Dec 09, 2014
The team delves deeper into the secrets of the skilled communities who built medieval castles. The stonemasons working on the castle walls are dependent upon blacksmiths, whose metalwork .. show full overview
1x5 Show finale
Beyond the Castle Walls
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Air date
Dec 17, 2014
As their time at Guedelon Castle in France draws to an end the team look at the castle's place in the wider medieval world. 13th-century Europe was a busy, developing, connected .. show full overview

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