The BBC show ‘24 hours in the past’ has transported participants to a challenge to live within a particular time period for 24 hours, adopting roles typical of that time, a recent episode had one participant thinking about building design.
On a recent episode, one of the participants Alistair McGowan is brought to tears by the splendour of Victorian architecture, and pondered why some current buildings do not quite have the same standards.
View the article on Alistair McGowan and a clip of the show on the BT TV website
View all of the episodes on BBC I-Player
