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Desirable Dwellings

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   Lucinda Lambton has photographed houses for 27 years. She conducts a
   personal and enthusiastic tour around her favourites - some of
   Britain's oddest, most individual and delightful homes.

   Lucinda's travels take her to a Hollywood hacienda in Derbyshire,
   created for a man who banished straight lines; a clairvoyant's bijou
   residence in the air; a Gothic castle now being built by a ruralist in
   deepest Cornwall; a haunted Victorian hotchpotch of a place north of
   the Humber, where the tiles don't match; and a circular confection of
   great charm in Devon, created by the Misses Parminter. (1988)
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Release date:

   10 November 1988

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   Mon 1 Aug 1994 11:50
   BBC Two

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Credits

        Role         Contributor
   Presenter       Lucinda Lambton
   Sound Recordist Chris King
   Photographer    John McGlashan
   Film Editor     Grant Muter
   Editor          Edward Mirzoeff

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