A sculptor, sex workers, a convict cleric… this house has seen it all: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS’ five-star review of A House Through Time

A House Through Time (BBC2) 

Rating: Five out of five stars 

Natural history used to be the BBC‘s unchallenged forte. Not any more – the unlimited budgets of Netflix and Disney have enabled streamers to create landmark wildlife series just as spectacular.

But no other broadcaster does human history as well as Auntie. The past decade or so has seen the BBC pioneer an innovative type of investigation into the past, one that engages our emotions as much as our curiosity.

Shows such as Fake Or Fortune? and Who Do You Think You Are? have the appeal of detective mysteries but they’re built on meticulous

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