St. Ives in Cornwall attracts art lovers; chalk carvings in Wiltshire; Shobna Gulati visits Howden Dam in the Peak District National Park; Emilia Fox visits Dorset; strolling the streets of London's Soho with actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

Maureen Lipman, Larry Lamb and Michael Buerk are joined by singer Mica Paris, and find out what it takes to maintain Castle Howard, which is best known for its starring role in the TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.

Maureen Lipman, Larry Lamb and Michael Buerk are joined by actress Emilia Fox and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis. Maureen takes to the water, joining the colourful and eccentric royal pageant of Swan Upping on the River Thames.

Glamis Castle in Scotland; Highland Games; trailing a 500-year-old burial mystery in Wiltshire; Wendy Craig's home village of Cookham in Berkshire; Bill Paterson boards the PS Waverley, the world's last seagoing steam paddler.

Maureen Lipman and Larry Lamb visit Scone Palace and meet the custodians of the `Stone of Scone', where centuries of Scottish kings were crowned. Elsewhere, Michael Buerk rides the footplate of a heritage steam train in the Severn Valley.

Amidst the rolling hills of Lancashire's Ribble Valley, Larry Lamb discovers the secrets of drystone walling and finds out how Britain's meadows are under threat. In Northcote Manor's walled kitchen garden, Maureen learns about heritage vegetables.