Fred Dibnah's Magnificent Monuments

Fred Dibnah considers the development of castles from early Iron Age forts to secret underground tunnels used during the Second World War.

Fred Dibnah looks at various dwellings, including Hampton Court Palace, Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire and his own childhood home in Bolton.

Fred Dibnah visits all manner of religious sites, starting in Preston - which boasts the tallest church steeple in Britain - and taking in York minster, a Saxon church in Durham, and St Paul's cathedral in London.

Fred Dibnah's journey takes him from a 1,000-year-old tithe barn in Sussex to the modern Lloyd's Building in London. Along the way he visits a Norman hospital and one of Britain's oldest dockyards in Kent.

Fred Dibnah looks at some of the great achievements in civil engineering, from the earliest wrought iron suspension bridge to the Channel Tunnel.

This edition focuses on structures that have been built for arts, leisure and entertainment purposes, including the Globe Theatre, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Blackpool Tower.