Episodes
Fred Dibnah’s Building of Britain: Scottish Style (BBC 4 Wednesday 31 May 2023)
Fred Dibnah’s Building of Britain: Scottish Style airs Wednesday 31 May 2023 on BBC 4.
In this episode, Fred Dibnah travels to Scotland to demonstrate the engineering and design skills that shaped Scottish baronial style as part of his mission to uncover and explain the construction skills that went into the building of Britain.
Fred shows how stonemasons from Aberdeen and plasterers from Italy worked their magic 400 years ago to transform a simple sandstone tower house into a great house that bears more than a passing resemblance to a fairy-tale castle at Glamis Castle.
Fred gets his hands dirty with some ornamental plasterwork at a specialised manufacturer’s for the House of Dun near Montrose, which is one of the finest country houses designed by William Adam. Fred visits Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast to show that it was Adam’s son Robert who had such an impact on home design that an architectural style was named after him.
Season 1 Episode 4
Fred Dibnah’s Building of Britain: Scottish Style airs Wednesday 31 May 2023 at 7.30pm on BBC 4
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