A House Through Time

Tuesday, BBC2, 9pm

For his third fascinating trip through the life and times of a single property, historian David Olusoga (right) heads to a house near Bristol’s docks. Built in 1718 by Captain Edmund Saunders, No 10 Guinea Street is inextricably linked to Britain’s slave trade. Its first resident, Joseph

Smith, trafficked men, women and children from Africa to the plantations of the Caribbean, and Olusoga uncovers evidence of piracy when he reads an account of one of Smith’s voyages from 1721. The story then moves on to a doctor and noted political satirist, before the arrival of Captain Joseph Holbrook, a sugar trader, and his servant, Thomas, described as a ‘native of Jamaica’.