Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again
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5 episodes
1. Father to the ManIn 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.CC50minMay 9, 2007
2. On The BrandwagonJonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it.CC50minMay 16, 2007
3. The Case of the Disappearing ArchitectJonathan 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 ParisCC50minMay 23, 2007
4. Heaven: Folkwoven in EnglandJonathan 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.CC50minMay 30, 2007
5. Stowe - Reading a GardenJonathan 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.CC50minJun 6, 2007
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Jonathan Meades Explores architecture and the British psyche once again in this series.
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- Jonathan Meades
- Cast
- Jonathan Meades
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- BBC
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English
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