Series
Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again
“Abroad Again With Jonathan Meades”
Documentary
Jonathan Meades Explores architecture and the British psyche once again in this series.
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Seasons & episodes
1Father to the Man9 May 2007 · 50mIn 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.
2On The Brandwagon16 May 2007 · 50mJonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it.
3The Case of the Disappearing Architect23 May 2007 · 50mJonathan 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
4Heaven: Folkwoven in England30 May 2007 · 50mJonathan 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.
5Stowe - Reading a Garden6 Jun 2007 · 50mJonathan 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.
Details
- Created by
- Jonathan Meades
- First aired
- 9 May 2007
- Last aired
- 6 Jun 2007
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 5
Cast
Jonathan MeadesHimself
