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Series 6 Episode 13 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

9PM Wednesday 28 Jan 2009 Channel 4

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Series 6

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    Series 6 Episode 13 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 9PM Wednesday 28 Jan 2009 Channel 4

    London couple Ian and Sophie Cooper plan to restore a 200-year-old listed industrial building in an area of outstanding natural beauty in Somerset.

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    Series 6 Episode 10 Grand Designs Revisited (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Thursday 11 Jun 2009 More4

    Five years on, Kevin McCloud goes back to the wilds of Cumbria to see how the Reddy family have adapted to their ecologically sound earth-sheltered home.

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    Series 6 Episode 9 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 10PM Monday 01 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin revisits David and Greta Iredale, who replaced their original house which they designed and built themselves with a German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.

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    Series 6 Episode 7 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 10PM Monday 15 Dec 2008 More4

    Bill and Jean Letley of Maidstone are not only building a new bungalow in their back garden, but also embracing cutting-edge technologies to create a super-efficient, highly contemporary…

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    Series 6 Episode 6 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 10PM Monday 10 Nov 2008 More4

    Bath may be famous for its Georgian architecture, but Tiffany Wood and her husband Jonny have chosen it as the location to build themselves a striking Modernist home.

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    Series 6 Episode 5 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Thursday 16 Jul 2009 More4

    Pru and Richard Irvine plan to build a bespoke family home in the Midlothian countryside, but the plot of land is an old industrial site with lime kilns and they come with conditions.

    Some mild language

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    Series 6 Episode 4 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Wednesday 15 Jul 2009 More4

    Inspired by their love of gothic architecture and horror movies, Jo and Shaun Bennett decide to build an Addams Family-style house in Monmouth, but they soon realise this is a big challenge

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    Series 6 Episode 3 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Tuesday 14 Jul 2009 More4

    Commercial architect Martin Pease embarks on a personal project of building a home in Bristol for his family, with a high concept design that's difficult to pull off.

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    Series 6 Episode 1 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Monday 13 Jul 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets a couple building an ultra modern, low maintenance home in the back garden of their elegant Regency house in Cheltenham, despite opposition from the neighbours.

Series 5

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    Series 5 Episode 30 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Wednesday 01 Apr 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud revisits Philip Trail and his wife Angela who moved to stress-free Surrey and renovated a 150-year-old threshing barn after Philip was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

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    Series 5 Episode 29 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 10PM Monday 24 Nov 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud drops in at John and Terri Westlake's self-built, contemporary wooden home, which has a wall made entirely of glass and great views across open countryside near Peterborough.

    Mild language

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    Series 5 Episode 28 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 10PM Monday 17 Nov 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud revisits artists David Westby and Leonie Whitton, who bought a derelict olive farm in Puglia, with plans to transform it into a home and Roman-style guest house.

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    Series 5 Episode 27 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Friday 27 Mar 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud revisits Janne and Howard and their ongoing conversion of a derelict 1,000-year-old castle in Tuscany.

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    Series 5 Episode 26 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Thursday 26 Mar 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud revisits Tony and Jo Moffat in their spectacular avant garde house on the west coast of Scotland.

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    Series 5 Episode 25 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Wednesday 25 Mar 2009 More4

    Engineering whiz Monty Ravenscroft built an extraordinary experimental home in Peckham. Kevin returns to see how it suits Monty and his partner now they have a child.

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    Series 5 Episode 24 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 6.55PM Tuesday 24 Mar 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud returns to visit Andrew and Lowri Davies and their two boys to see if their environmentally-friendly farmhouse in rural Wales has been the answer to their dreams.

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    Series 5 Episode 23 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Monday 23 Mar 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud returns to the ski resort of Les Gets in the French Alps where Nicky and James Dobree turned a traditional 300-year-old farmhouse into an exceptionally luxurious chalet.

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    Series 5 Episode 22 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Friday 20 Mar 2009 More4

    Denise Daniel and Doug Ibbs gave up everything to start a new life in central France. Having fallen in love with a massive, dilapidated manor house, can they convert it into a B&B?

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    Series 5 Episode 21 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Thursday 19 Mar 2009 More4

    Anjana and David Devoy started building a contemporary home that curved around a protected chestnut tree in their garden. Kevin McCloud returns to see if their plan worked.

    Mild language

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    Series 5 Episode 20 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Wednesday 18 Mar 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets master carpenter Bill Bradley and his wife Sarah, who are building two high-spec finished timber houses in south London on the site of Bill's old wood workshop.

    Some strong language

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    Series 5 Episode 19 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Tuesday 17 Mar 2009 More4

    Kelly and Masoko Neville are building not just a spectacular oak frame and straw bale house, but a whole new self-sufficient way of life in the Cambridgeshire Fens.

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    Series 5 Episode 18 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Monday 16 Mar 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Andrew and Helen Berry, whose passion for Art Deco has inspired them to try and recreate all the glamour of the 1930s in a 21st century home in Surrey.

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    Series 5 Episode 16 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 7PM Thursday 12 Mar 2009 More4

    Katrin and James Gray have found a unique plot to build their dream home, a redundant solarium on top of a block of flats on the beach in Bournemouth, but it's not going to be easy.

    Some strong language

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    Series 5 Episode 15 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Tuesday 23 Dec 2008 More4

    Chris Miller and his wife Sze Liu Laine are taking on a unique build. They have just £50,000 pounds to build an environmentally-friendly houseboat from a rusting Thames barge.

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    Series 5 Episode 14 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Monday 22 Dec 2008 More4

    Cheryl and Alex Reay's medieval thatched cottage in Hampshire burned down and, to make matters worse, their insurance had expired. So they decided to build a spectacular new home.

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    Series 5 Episode 13 Grand Designs (74 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5.20PM Friday 02 Jan 2009 More4

    A heroic battle to save a crumbling, romantic 14th-century castle in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

    Mild language

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    Series 5 Episode 12 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Friday 19 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Peter and Christine Benjamin who live in an Edwardian manor house but have decided to downsize and build a smaller home in the grounds.

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    Series 5 Episode 11 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Thursday 18 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Denise and Bruno Del Tufo, who have ambitious plans for a concrete water tower sitting in their back garden, with a strict budget of £250,000.

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    Series 5 Episode 10 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Wednesday 17 Dec 2008 More4

    After 20 years travelling, Theo and Elaine Leijser have decided to settle down in the beautiful Campsie Fells in Scotland to build their dream home in six months and on a tight budget.

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    Series 5 Episode 9 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Jane and Robert Ellis who are planning a mouth-wateringly contemporary conversion of a 300-year-old barn into a stunning modern home using steel and glass.

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    Series 5 Episode 8 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Monday 15 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Jim and Simone Fairfull, who are building a spectacular light-filled glass pavilion floating over a private loch in Scotland.

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    Series 5 Episode 7 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Friday 12 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin meets Andrew and Lowri Davies who have embarked on a project to build an environmentally-friendly farmhouse in rural Wales.

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    Series 5 Episode 6 Grand Designs (48 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5PM Thursday 11 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Julie and Mark Veysey, whose Grand Design is a stunning Miami-style beach house on a beachfront plot overlooking the south Devon coast.

    Some mild language

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    Series 5 Episode 5 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 2PM Saturday 14 Nov 2009 More4

    Thomas and Dervla O'Hare are building a spectacular split-level home cascading down an almost vertical hillside in Belfast. But is their vertiginous grand design a step too far?

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    Series 5 Episode 4 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5.40PM Saturday 20 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Pat Becker, who lives in a large Georgian house in Devon. But now that her family have flown the nest, she's building a new home at the bottom of the garden.

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    Series 5 Episode 3 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 4.35PM Saturday 20 Dec 2008 More4

    John Cadney is building an environmentally-friendly, four-bedroom log cabin in Kent. But how will he cope with a house imported from Finland as hundreds of pre-cut bits of wood?

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    Series 5 Episode 2 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 3.30PM Saturday 20 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud follows Jeremy and Louise Brown as they try to bring their Grade II Listed 16th-century Gloucestershire farmhouse into the 21st century.

    Mild language

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    Series 5 Episode 1 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Friday 27 Feb 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe, who can't afford to buy a house in London and have decided to build on a dirt-cheap sliver of land in Peckham.

    Mild language

Series 4

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    Series 4 Episode 8 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 5.05PM Friday 21 Nov 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have found a plot with a view to die for on the west coast of Scotland. The trouble is, they are not sure what kind of house they want.

    Mild language

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    Series 4 Episode 7 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5.05PM Thursday 20 Nov 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Anjana and David Devoy who, having outgrown their tiny Victorian house in Clapham, plan to build a modern, minimalist home in their back garden.

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    Series 4 Episode 6 Grand Designs (50 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Tuesday 24 Feb 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets a couple planning to buy a wreck of an old stone building in Leith, Edinburgh, to turn into their dream home, despite a total lack of building experience.

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    Series 4 Episode 5 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 6.55PM Monday 23 Feb 2009 More4

    Former Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins and his partner Darron have spent years dreaming of building a modernist, Bauhaus-inspired white cube, but will it feel like home?

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    Series 4 Episode 4 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 5.05PM Monday 17 Nov 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets a couple who have spent 15 years planning their dream home - an exotic and inspired wooden-framed house - but is the New Forest ready for such a Grand Design?

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    Series 4 Episode 3 Grand Designs (50 mins)

    First Broadcast: 6.55PM Thursday 19 Feb 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud follows a couple who have built houses before, but never on this scale. Their new 'Huf Haus' is designed and made in Germany but delivered for assembly in Surrey.

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    Series 4 Episode 2 Grand Designs (50 mins)

    First Broadcast: 6.55PM Wednesday 18 Feb 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud looks at a couple's plans to turn a crumbling, disused violin factory in central London into a Manhattan loft-style living space.

Series 3

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    Series 3 Episode 8 Grand Designs (48 mins)

    First Broadcast: 4.45PM Saturday 10 Jan 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud travels to Hereford to meet a very young couple who are building their first home, in the centre of an ancient village, surrounded by beautiful medieval cottages.

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    Series 3 Episode 7 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 3.40PM Saturday 10 Jan 2009 More4

    Philip and Andrea Traill have ambitious plans for their Grade II Listed Victorian timber-clad barn but their plan to combine traditional and ultra-modern design causes some headaches.

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    Series 3 Episode 6 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 8.55PM Saturday 03 Jan 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets keen environmentalists Helen Gould and Phil Reddy, who are building a home in the Cumbrian countryside.

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    Series 3 Episode 5 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 7.50PM Saturday 03 Jan 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud follows Ben Law as he attempts to build his dream home: a handmade, cruck-framed wooden house, totally self-sufficient, with no mains services.

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    Series 3 Episode 4 Grand Designs (50 mins)

    First Broadcast: 6.40PM Saturday 03 Jan 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets a couple who have their hearts set on converting a disused industrial waterworks in the Chesterfield countryside into their dream home.

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    Series 3 Episode 3 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 5.35PM Saturday 03 Jan 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud joins a Peterborough couple as they seek to realise their Grand Design of a very modern home in a traditional woodland setting.

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    Series 3 Episode 2 Grand Designs (50 mins)

    First Broadcast: 4.30PM Saturday 03 Jan 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud joins John and Eleni Flood as they attempt to turn their cluttered and cramped Victorian terraced house in Hackney into a cool, contemporary, light and roomy living space.

Series 2

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    Series 2 Episode 8 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7PM Monday 11 May 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud visits a couple who are looking to build their hi-tech modern house in a quiet north London street.

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    Series 2 Episode 7 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 7PM Friday 08 May 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud travels to Wales to visit a couple who have decided that their first home will be a 300-year-old ruin in the Brecon Beacons.

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    Series 2 Episode 6 Grand Designs (50 mins)

    First Broadcast: 7PM Thursday 07 May 2009 More4

    Kevin McCloud visits a couple in Devon who are hoping to convert a traditional barn complete with thatched roof.

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    Series 2 Episode 5 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 8.55PM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets a couple who plan a very expensive and very experimental design on a virgin building plot in the Lambourn Valley.

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    Series 2 Episode 4 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 7.45PM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud follows the construction of a New England style-kit house built on the Sussex Downs that was bought and designed entirely on the internet.

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    Series 2 Episode 3 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 6.40PM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets a woman determined to build the house of her dreams, an enormous Georgian-style mansion in Farnham, against all the odds.

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    Series 2 Episode 2 Grand Designs (49 mins) [S]

    First Broadcast: 5.35PM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud checks out an innovative housing scheme in Birmingham that allows people to build their own homes. The group of 11 men and women will build, not just their own property, but…

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    Series 2 Episode 1 Grand Designs (49 mins)

    First Broadcast: 4.30PM Saturday 27 Dec 2008 More4

    Kevin McCloud meets Chris and Jill, who have chosen to build their dream home in Huddersfield by converting a deserted textile mill, which they dream of giving a light, modern interior.

Series 1

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    Series 1 Episode 8 Grand Designs (50 mins)

    Kevin McCloud travels to Doncaster where Michael Hird and Lindsay Harwood are building a futuristic glass and steel house in a suburb of Doncaster.

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    Series 1 Episode 7 Grand Designs (51 mins) [S]

    Kevin McCloud is in lslington where Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth have come up with a highly experimental design for a home/office.

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    Series 1 Episode 6 Grand Designs (51 mins)

    Kevin McCloud travels to Cornwall to visit Gavin Allen and Jane Fitzsimons, who are trying to convert a chapel into a home and a teleworking office for Jane.

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    Series 1 Episode 5 Grand Designs (51 mins)

    A Suffolk couple plan an environmentally friendly house with solar heating, grey water systems and reclaimed materials.

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    Series 1 Episode 4 Grand Designs (51 mins)

    Kevin McCloud travels to Amersham, where a couple plan to design an 'invisible' house, blending in with the earth banks of the surrounding reservoirs.

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    Series 1 Episode 3 Grand Designs (50 mins)

    Kevin travels to Brighton to meet a co-operative of ten young families, including ex-travellers and single parents, who are building both their own and each others homes.

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    Series 1 Episode 2 Grand Designs (50 mins)

    Kevin travels to Oxfordshire to meet the Randolphs, who built their first house 10 years ago and now, in their 70s, have decided to do it all again!

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    Series 1 Episode 1 Grand Designs (48 mins)

    A couple in Newhaven face a race against time as they build their dream home on windswept cliff-top site in time for the birth of their baby.

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