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1988
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Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Turner Meades is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food. His work spans journalism, fiction, essays, memoir and over fifty highly idiosyncratic television films, and has been described as "brainy, scabrous, mischievous", "iconoclastic" and possessed of "a polymathic breadth of knowledge and truly caustic wit".
Filmography
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Mark Lawson Talks To
2003
star 6.0
A series in which arts presenter Mark Lawson has a 60-minute in-depth conversation with a notable figure.
Victoria Died in 1901 and is Still Alive Today
2001
Jonathan Meades's personal, entertaining and deliberately provocative journey through Victorian architecture. F...
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
2002
star 5.8
A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film charts Dali's...
Travels with Pevsner
1997
Series in which presenters explore architecture in the footsteps of Nikolaus Pevsner.
Jonathan Meades - Magnetic North
2008
star 9.0
Jonathan Meades travels from the flatlands of Flanders to Germany's spectacular Baltic coast in an attempt to d...
Bunkers Brutalism and Bloodymindedness
2014
Two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist architecture i...
Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again
2007
Jonathan Meades Explores architecture and the British psyche once again in this series.
tv-ssfbm ehkl Surreal Film
2001
Surreal. Totally surreal. Well surreal. Double surreal. What does "surreal" mean? Does it mean anything? Docume...
Abroad in Britain
1990
Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain.
Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter
2009
Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered...
Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades
1994
Set In a distant Present. In a land where there is no such word as 'ordinary' and where every.... AAhh.. AATCHO...
Jonathan Meades on Jargon
2018
star 10.0
In this provocative television essay, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his forensic gaze on that mo...
tvSSFBM EHKL
2001
star 5.0
A surreal film about surrealism.
Heart Bypass: Birmingham
1998
Jonathan Meades offers an affectionate critique of Birmingham - home of Balti, ELO, heavy metal, conferences, '...
Jonathan Meades On France
2012
Jonathan Meades scrutinises the 95 per cent of France that Brits drive through and don't notice en route to the...
Even Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades
1997
My name is Jonathan Meades and this Series is called 'Even Further Abroad'. It peels off the drab grey overcoat...
Franco Building with Jonathan Meades
2019
Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his gaze onto Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
Abroad Again in Britain
2005
star 9.0
Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.
Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism
2016
star 6.5
Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his atten...
Jerry Building: Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany
1994
star 7.0
Jonathan Meades explores the architecture of Nazi Germany, from its holiday camps to its concentration camps.
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture
2006
Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments.