Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again (2007)
Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again
2007
Jonathan Meades Explores architecture and the British psyche once again in this series.
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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.
Jonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it.
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
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.
Jonathan Meades Explores architecture and the British psyche once again in this series.
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