Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

2007
Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Father to the Man May 09, 2007

In the first episode of a five-part series, Jonathan Meades revisits the places his father (a biscuit rep) took him to as a child, in order to shed some light on his abiding obsession with buildings and places.

EP2 On The Brandwagon May 16, 2007

Jonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it.

EP3 The Case of the Disappearing Architect May 23, 2007

Jonathan Meades investigates the short and lustrous career of that most mysterious of High Victorian architects, Cuthbert Brodrick. Briefly the most celebrated architect in Britain after designing Leeds Town Hall, he went on to spend almost half a century of willed obscurity in Paris

EP4 Heaven: Folkwoven in England May 30, 2007

Jonathan Meades tells the story of Letchworth, the first British garden city. A social experiment, its legacy is Britain's ubiquitous, banal sprawl. Yet it all started so charmingly with naked dew-bathers, vegetarian mystics and sandal-makers roaming through Hertfordshire clay fields.

EP5 Stowe - Reading a Garden Jun 06, 2007

Jonathan Meades visits Stowe - the greatest of Enlightenment landscapes, an enclosed world of the utmost pomp. Its gardens, lakes, woods and, above all, follies are to be interpreted by those with a grasp of the classics to which they refer.
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Synopsis

Jonathan Meades Explores architecture and the British psyche once again in this series.

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Jonathan Meades as Himself