About the show
Welcome to Hidden Heritage – the podcast that brings you inside Great Britain’s favourite destinations with help from custodians, historians, artisans and experts.
From the same team that brought you the No.1 History podcast Duchess, Hidden Heritage uncovers the fascinating stories behind the UK brightest hidden gems. With the help from the biggest voices within British heritage, Hidden Heritage will explore some of the key challenges facing national heritage today and how they can be addressed.
Hosted by Lady Violet Manners, founder of HeritageX and Executive Producer of the hit podcast Duchess, this podcast shares the untold & unique stories that celebrate UK heritage. From landmarks to architecture, artefacts to myths & legends, Hidden Heritage will highlight a side to British history you have never seen before.
This is Hidden Heritage.
Hosted by Violet Manners — Viscountess Garnock (née Lady Violet Manners) — this series explores the lives of those shaped, influenced or quietly drawn towards heritage.
Some guests grew up inside historic houses, as Violet did.Some work behind the scenes preserving them.Others simply fell in love with old places and found that fascination shaping the course of their lives.
These are conversations about ambition, memory, risk, family and belonging — with heritage woven throughout.
Because heritage is never just about buildings.
It is about the people drawn to them, shaped by them, and sometimes changed because of them.
Filming & Events in Historic Houses: What It Really Involves
Filming and large-scale events can provide historic houses with vital income and global visibility. Yet behind every beautifully shot scene lies a complex reality of negotiation, risk management and strategic decision-making.
In this episode of Hidden Heritage, Violet is joined by Naomi Nettleton, who advises historic estates on filming and venue agreements, and Charles Lister, House Manager at Boughton House, who brings more than three decades of practical experience managing productions on site.
Together they explore what owners should consider before agreeing to filming, how commercial terms are structured, and how houses can protect their long-term interests while embracing new opportunities. The conversation moves beyond the glamour often associated with film locations to examine the operational pressures, legal frameworks and reputational implications that shape these decisions.
This discussion forms part of Hidden Heritage’s ongoing collaboration with Charles Russell Speechlys, whose Private Client and Heritage teams work closely with estates and families navigating the evolving commercial landscape of historic property.
For further insight into their work with historic houses and heritage assets, listeners can explore
www.charlesrussellspeechlys.com
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