Listen "25: EI Weekly Listen – Clive Aslet: The changing fate of the English country house"
Episode Synopsis
Amid the tumult of the 1970s, it appeared the traditional country house had gone into irreversible decline - but it was too early to write it off. Read by Leighton Pugh.
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