In this episode we spend the afternoon in a most unlikely Arcadia. Three Mill Lane E3 leads us through a magical landscape, in which an isolated marsh becomes an East End factory, which becomes in turn an East Anglian village green. Essex grain breeds oblivion and then misery for the inhabitants of Hogarth’s and Dickens’ London. Conkers are transformed into high explosives destined for the Somme. Victorian warehouses host pop-culture icons and their retinues. And an ill-assorted set of housemates find themselves mythologised as characters in a new national epic. We’ll hear all their stories, and more.

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