Storyville
Season 17 Episode 21 - Hotel Folly - Folie a Deux
Filmed over five years, this is an emotional rollercoaster of a documentary which explores the sometimes extreme highs and lows of one of life's biggest gambles - buying a home. Helen has seven children, a new partner and a very comfortable lifestyle when they decide to get a mortgage to buy one of the most historical houses in England. They want to convert the shabby 72-room mansion in the centre of York into a tasteful hotel, but when the financial crisis hits their dream turns into their worst nightmare. For five years, feisty Helen fights the banks for a loan for the spiralling renovation costs and her neighbours over rights to the courtyard. While her house gradually becomes unsellable, she persists with her neigbourhood wars. Part black comedy, part nail-biting journey, this shows the human cost of the mortgage crisis.
Episodes in Season 17
The House I Live In
85 min
Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song
85 min
Queen of Versailles
85 min
Death on the Staircase: The Last Chance
85 min
Expedition to the End of the World
85 min
Google and the World Brain
85 min
The Pirate Bay
85 min
How Hackers Changed the World: We Are Legion
85 min
I Will Be Murdered
85 min
Surviving the Tsunami: My Atomic Aunt
85 min
The Road, a Story of Life and Death
85 min
Buck: The Real Horse Whisperer
85 min
Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa
85 min
The Law in These Parts
85 min
Power, Money, Greed & Oil
85 min
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
85 min
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
85 min
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer
85 min
Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
85 min
The Disappeared
85 min
Hotel Folly - Folie a Deux
85 min
The Spy Who Went into the Cold: Kim Philby, Soviet Super Spy
85 min
Blackfish - The Whale that Killed
85 min
Fame in China
85 min
