The Manor Reborn


2:15 pm - 3:15 pm, Monday, January 5 on BBC Two England (2)

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Season 1, Episode 1

Penelope Keith and Paul Martin present as a team of historians, experts, and volunteers sets out to renovate 500-year-old Avebury Manor in Wiltshire. The project reflects on the story of Britain across five centuries, exploring a wide range of craft and furniture-making skills and the impact on how the way people live has evolved from Elizabethan times


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Cast & Crew

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Penelope Keith (Presenter)
Paul Martin (Presenter)
Basil Comely (Executive producer)
Kate Shiers (Series producer)

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Penelope Keith (Presenter)
Born: April 02, 1940 in Sutton, Surrey
Best Known For: Playing snobby women in a variety of sitcoms.
Early-life: Born Penelope Anne Constance Hatfield in Clapham, South London, on April 2, 1940; her father reportedly disappeared soon after she was born. She met him once, during an outing, but did have a very close relationship with her mother and grandmother. Unfortunately, she failed to bond with her stepfather and still doesn't like to talk about him. After deciding on acting as a career, she attended London's Webber Douglas Academy, where Terence Stamp was among her fellow students. After graduating, she worked in local repertory theatre.
Career: Keith became a star on the small screen in 1975, playing snooty Margo Leadbetter in BBC sitcom The Good Life. More success followed with To the Manor Born, in which she played penniless aristocrat Audrey fforbes-Hamilton alongside Peter Bowles, with whom she was reunited in ITV's Executive Stress in 1986. No Job for a Lady in which she played a rebellious Labour MP and Next of Kin, in which she depicted a retired woman coping with her estranged daughter's children, failed to make much of a mark. She has since largely stayed away from TV, concentrating instead on the theatre, gardening and charity work. However, Keith did return to the small screen in 2003 in Margery and Gladys opposite June Brown, and starred in a one-off To the Manor Born Christmas Special in 2007.
Quote: "I was very tall and very plain. I wasn't going to get very far on looks - so I thought I'd better be the funny girl."
Trivia: In 2002, she spent a year as the High Sheriff of Surrey and was made a Dame in 2014.
Paul Martin (Presenter)
Born: January 05, 1959 in Teddington, Middlesex
Best Known For: Presenting Flog It!.
Early-life: Born on January 5, 1959 in Teddington, Middlesex. Paul moved with his family to Cornwall and was educated at Falmouth Grammar School before going on to study art and woodwork at Falmouth College of Arts. After he graduated, Paul got a job as a scenic painter at Pinewood Studios for two years.
Career: Martin began developing a career as an antiques trader and dealer. At age 25, he had a stall on Portobello Road in London. He also worked as an antiques props stylist for such magazines as New Woman and Marie Claire, while he also designed antique sets for such TV shows as BBC One's The Clothes Show and Granada TV. Martin then went on to run an antique furniture shop in Marlborough, Wiltshire called The Table Gallery. He was discovered by BBC Bristol when he was interviewed about his interest in oak furniture. After that, he was signed up to present Flog It!. Since then, he has presenter a number of other TV programmes, including I Never Knew That About Britain, Summer Diaries and Trust Me, I'm a Dealer.
Quote: "If you want to get serious about antiques, go to a specialist shop and pick the dealer's brains."
Trivia: He worked as a professional drummer for such bands as Average White Band, the Quireboys and Dogs D'Amour in the 1990s.
Basil Comely (Executive producer)
Kate Shiers (Series producer)