Visitors to John Soane’s extraordinary house-museum in London can have no doubt that he was steeped in history. Its sepulchral basement is filled to bursting with a collection of antiquities befitting ...
The episode will be available for free with adverts on 6th March. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the architect Sir John Soane (1753 -1837), the son of a bricklayer. He rose up the ranks of his ...