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Episode 8

The Beverly Hills, Los Angeles

In this week’s episode - a hotel whose walls are saturated with stories of Hollywood legends.

The glamour and history of film stars, rock stars and media power players, all converging at one iconic pink palace.

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Season 1 - Episodes

  • The exterior of Claridge's Hotel London with two uniformed doormen standing at the entrance

    Claridge's

    LONDON

    The rise of one of the most exclusive districts of London, the hotel that became the Annex to Buckingham Palace, and how it has maintained its status as one of the world’s most iconic hotels ever since.

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  • The Gritti Palace, Venice - green marble walls, ornate chandeliers, a bar area, and a variety of seating including striped and floral upholstered chairs and a green velvet sofa, with decorative elements and a mosaic floor.

    The Gritti Palace

    Venice

    Discover how this stunning 15th-century palazzo, once the private residence of a Venetian Doge, became a cherished haven and muse for literary giants from Ernest Hemingway to Somerset Maugham.

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  • Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc - A large, elegant white mansion with a gray roof surrounded by lush green trees, overlooking a bay with calm blue water and distant mountains.

    Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc

    Antibes

    Richard takes in the glittering shoreline of the French Riviera and discovers what great artists like to get up to on holiday and dives into what might just be the most legendary swimming pool ever built.

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  • Raffles Singapore - A large, white, historic-style hotel building with multiple windows and a grand entrance, surrounded by greenery and palm trees, under a blue sky.

    Raffles Hotel

    Singapore

    Discover how four visionary Armenian brothers turned a 10-room beach bungalow into a magnificent Neo-Renaissance palace, where literary giants found their muse, and some of the world’s most famous cocktails were shaken.

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  • Facade of Le Bristol Hotel Paris, with black and gold awning, four potted topiary trees, and ornate street lamps.

    Le Bristol

    Paris

    An architect draws up plans from an unmarked hotel room during World War II, the joys of a good hotel bar, and why this particular hotel is so well known for its silence - and it’s nothing to do with its double glazing.

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  • La Mamounia

    La Mamounia

    Marrakesh

    Richard is back on his home continent, exploring the isolated sultanate that became a thriving luxury travel destination, enjoying a garden designed to replicate paradise on earth, and absorbing a view that roused Winston Churchill to paint...

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  • A large, elegant hotel or mansion surrounded by green trees and landscaped gardens, with a small pond in the foreground. The building has multiple stories with numerous windows, and a flag flies from its roof. Bright, clear sky with a few clouds.

    Gleneagles

    Auchterader

    Known for its unusual outdoor pursuits, this episode explores the legendary adaptability of a hotel from WW2 convalescent hospital to the host of world class golfing championships, the G8, and a rock concert that threatened to smash all of its chandeliers.

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  • Hotels with History

    The Beverly Hills

    Los Angeles

    A hotel whose walls are saturated with stories of Hollywood legends.

    The glamour and history of film stars, rock stars and media power players, all converging at one iconic pink palace

    Listen here
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