Season 1 Episodes
1. Episode 1
May 1st, 200642 min
Alain de Botton went in search of answers to our housing crisis, and came up with some suggestions for the perfect home: a kind of architecture that can make us happy as our environments determine how we feel.
2. Episode 2
May 8th, 200642 min
Alain de Botton suggests that most new houses are built in appalling taste - and that, with a housing deficit of around a million homes, this country urgently needs to wake up to the merits of good design.
3. Episode 3
May 15th, 200642 min
In the final programme, Alain de Botton travels to Holland and Japan, to see how different our homes could look. He argues for houses that help us to see the world as a place to feel at home in, rather than to fear.
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