Britain's Best Buildings

Dan Cruickshank, an architectural historian and TV presenter, chose his personal picks of British architecture for the BBC documentary series Britain's Best Buildings. It debuted on BBC Two from 2 to 23 November 2002, covering four buildings, and returned on BBC Four from 5 May to 2 June 2004 with five more. The series sparked a copyright controversy in 2004 when the BBC apologized to television historian Michael Morris after Cruickshank repeated phrases from Morris's Channel 4 documentary about Harlech Castle; the BBC re-edited the programme and blamed a researcher. A companion book by Cruickshank, published in 2002, covers the first series' four buildings plus four additional ones: Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh; Cardiff Castle; Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras station, London; and Highpoint I, London.