
By 1913, Number 5 is home to respectable couple Frederick and Louisa Pryce Lewis. From a clue in the family photo album, David follows the trail of their younger son Walter, tracking him from Australia to the battlefields of Gallipoli and finally back to Leeds, where David discovers that Walter has turned to a life of crime.\n\nSuccessful textiles chemist Percival King and wife Rose are the next to move into the house, with their young daughter. But this apparently happy family is split apart when Percival suddenly resigns from his job, admits himself to a psychiatric institution then disappears without warning. \n\nOur next residents, Laurence and May Bendit, are a married couple with a shared passion for the spiritual movement of theosophy who raise their young children at Number 5. But when Laurence develops an interest in the paranormal, an encounter with a mysterious clairvoyant puts his marriage under threat.
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Series 6: Edinburgh: Episode 4
David follows the house from the poverty-stricken 1930s through the Second World War and the cultural renaissance of postwar Edinburgh, all the way to the present day.\n\nThe ep ...
03-09-2026
BBC 2
Series 6: Edinburgh: Episode 3
During the first two decades of the 20th century, life for many in Edinburgh is hard. The demolition of the slums in the Old Town has put pressure on living spaces, and the hous ...
02-09-2026
BBC 2
Series 6: Edinburgh: Episode 2
In the Victorian era, the residents of the house on Calton Hill include Thomas Mains, a maker of expensive shoes whose customers won’t pay. His wife, Ann, eventually takes ...
28-08-2026
BBC 2
Series 6: Edinburgh: Episode 1
The house's first residents are the Rev William Fitzsimmons, an 18th-century Episcopal Church minister who is arrested for helping French prisoners escape from Edinburgh Castle; ...
21-08-2026
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 4
David Olusoga traces the residents’ stories from winter 1942 to the end of the war. In the shattered ruins of Berlin, not all the residents survive.\n\nAs the Berlin resid ...
27-01-2026
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 3
It’s 1940, and in London, the threat of invasion by Germany has become very real. Montagu Mansions resident Timothy Corsellis begins training as an RAF pilot, but begins t ...
21-01-2026
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 2
By 1936, the ruling Nazi Party is transforming the lives of the residents at the building in Berlin. One new resident, academic Paul Dittel, has returned to Germany to join the ...
13-01-2026
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 1
David Olusoga traces the lives of residents of two apartment blocks - Montagu Mansions in Marylebone, London, and 72 Pfalzburger Strasse in Wilmersdorf, Berlin - to tell the sto ...
06-01-2026
BBC 2
Series 4: Episode 4
The final episode opens at the outbreak of the Second World War, and our house is home to the Wood family. While father John serves as an ARP warden, teenage son Geoffrey joins ...
13-06-2024
BBC 2
Series 4: Episode 3
By 1913, Number 5 is home to respectable couple Frederick and Louisa Pryce Lewis. From a clue in the family photo album, David follows the trail of their younger son Walter, tra ...
30-05-2024
BBC 2
Series 6: Edinburgh: Episode 3
During the first two decades of the 20th century, life for many in Edinburgh is hard. The demolition of the slums in the Old Town has put pressure on living spaces, and the hous ...
02-09-2026
BBC 2
Series 6: Edinburgh: Episode 2
In the Victorian era, the residents of the house on Calton Hill include Thomas Mains, a maker of expensive shoes whose customers won’t pay. His wife, Ann, eventually takes ...
28-08-2026
BBC 2
Series 6: Edinburgh: Episode 1
The house's first residents are the Rev William Fitzsimmons, an 18th-century Episcopal Church minister who is arrested for helping French prisoners escape from Edinburgh Castle; ...
21-08-2026
BBC 2
Series 6: Edinburgh: Episode 4
David follows the house from the poverty-stricken 1930s through the Second World War and the cultural renaissance of postwar Edinburgh, all the way to the present day.\n\nThe ep ...
03-09-2026
BBC 2
Series 3: Episode 1
David Olusoga sets out once more to uncover the history of a single house, discovering remarkable stories along the way – of piracy, a foundling baby and a runaway slave.\ ...
18-05-2023
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 4
David Olusoga traces the residents’ stories from winter 1942 to the end of the war. In the shattered ruins of Berlin, not all the residents survive.\n\nAs the Berlin resid ...
27-01-2026
BBC 2
Series 3: Episode 2
David Olusoga investigates the residents of Number 10 Guinea Street from the end of the 18th century until the 1870s. They are an extraordinarily diverse bunch, from a middle-cl ...
25-05-2023
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 3
In this episode, David Olusoga follows the residents of the house through the early 20th century. The house is now being run as a boarding house by 41-year-old single mum Grace ...
28-10-2021
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 1
In the first episode, David Olusoga pays his first visit to the house. It is a Georgian end-of-terrace property on Ravensworth Terrace, in Newcastle upon Tyne’s gritty Wes ...
07-10-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
This series tells a story of Britain spanning a period of seismic social change from the 1840s to the present day, through the prism of a single-terraced house in Liverpool. Pre ...
04-07-2020
BBC 2