As a child growing up in Newcastle during the Seventies and Eighties, David Olusoga frequently experienced racism. Visiting his home city for the second run of A House Through Time (BBC Two), the presenter will surely need to resurrect the difficulties of his own past at some stage when dealing with the social and cultural history of a place which, like many other large British conurbations, has had a mutable, fluctuating existence.

It’s a terrific series – educational (but not in the usual GCSE way that mars so many documentary series) and often very moving in its snapshots of forgotten lives. The idea of examining the history of a house over 200 years is simple, but the ghosts it necessarily summons are complex and varied.

If there was a criticism this time, it’s that the house Olusoga has chosen is very similar to the one featured in the previous Liverpool-based series – a large Georgian terrace built in a port during a financial boom. Some of the narratives being told felt a little bit too familiar.

Number 5 Ravensworth Terrace, sits in an oasis of green adjacent to a rackety part of Newcastle, and is today owned by a couple, Damian and Suzi, who talk about its hauntedness as if it’s the most natural thing in the world.