Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

"Abroad Again With Jonathan Meades"

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

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

First Aired

2007-05-09
Last Aired

2007-06-06
Creator

Jonathan Meades
Genre

Documentary
Seasons

1
Episodes

5
Status

Ended
Language

English
Network

BBC Two

Keywords:

arts and culture

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Season 1

1. Father to the Man

In the first episode of a five-part series, Jonathan Meades revisits the places his father (a biscuit ...More

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.Less

50mins 2007-05-09

2. On The Brandwagon

Jonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' b...More

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

50mins 2007-05-16

3. The Case of the Disappearing Architect

Jonathan Meades investigates the short and lustrous career of that most mysterious of High Victorian a...More

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 ParisLess

50mins 2007-05-23

4. Heaven: Folkwoven in England

Jonathan Meades tells the story of Letchworth, the first British garden city. A social experiment, its...More

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.Less

50mins 2007-05-30

5. Stowe - Reading a Garden

Jonathan Meades visits Stowe - the greatest of Enlightenment landscapes, an enclosed world of the utmo...More

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.Less