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Nairn's Journeys

  • 1971 – 1978
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • 3 seasons

Writer and journalist Ian Nairn presents a series of travels, examining architecture and culture across Europe.

Latest: Season 3 · 1978

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  1. E1. Finding Follies: West of the Pennines

    Aug 15, 1978

    Ian Nairn takes a look at traditional follies and his own idea of follies in the first of three journeys in search of the good, the bad and the ugly in man's additions to the landscape.

  2. E2. Finding Follies: 'Twixt London and Bristol

    Aug 22, 1978

    Ian Nairn finds traditional follies and his own idea of follies along the Great Western Railway route between London and Bristol. Paddington Station, Reading Priory, Faringdon Tower and the Uffington White Horse feature, and Nairn finds the follies in Bristol and Bath.

  3. E3. Finding Follies: Stourhead to the City

    Aug 29, 1978

    Ian Nairn takes the last of three journeys in search of traditional follies and his own idea of follies. Wiltshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Concorde feature, and Nairn finds the follies in the City of London.

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