Britain's Secret Homes: Season 1, Episode 1

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Bettany Hughes talks to Rogie and Angie Sage who made an amazing discovery after deciding to renovate their home. After removing the plaster from the living room wall, they unveiled a 500-year-old portrait of King Henry VIII. Michael Portillo meets Jim Higgins on the Cornish coast, who has lived in a railway carriage bought by his father-in-law as a home in 1931. Anthony Horowitz pays a visit to a gothic ‘house of horrors’, which inspired the greatest detective stories in English literature. Simon Weston visits the secret village that saved the lives of World War I veterans whilst Michael Buerk pays a visit to a Georgian home whose owner turned it into a time machine.