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Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

2007•Documentary
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Abroad Again With Jonathan Meades

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

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 9, 2007

Episodes

Episode 1 - Father to the ManE150m

Father to the Man

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.

May 9, 2007

Episode 2 - On The BrandwagonE250m

On The Brandwagon

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

May 16, 2007

Episode 3 - The Case of the Disappearing ArchitectE350m

The Case of the Disappearing Architect

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

May 23, 2007

Episode 4 - Heaven: Folkwoven in EnglandE450m

Heaven: Folkwoven in England

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.

May 30, 2007

Episode 5 - Stowe - Reading a GardenE550m

Stowe - Reading a Garden

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.

Jun 6, 2007

Actors

Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades

Himself

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