Jonathan Meades - Abroad in Britain

Season 5

Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain.

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5 Episodes

Abroad Again: Father to the Man
E1
Abroad Again: Father to the ManIn 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.
Abroad Again: On the Brandwagon
E2
Abroad Again: On the BrandwagonThe Liverpool garden festival gave us the word 'regeneration'. Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao combined with this to create a fashion. Every city wanted a slice of regeneration and used 'landmark' buildings to get it. Jonathan Meades ponders this expensive craze and the effects of supposedly regenerated inner cities.
Abroad Again: The Case of the Disappearing Architect
E3
Abroad Again: The Case of the Disappearing ArchitectJonathan 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.
Abroad Again: Heaven: Folkwoven In England
E4
Abroad Again: Heaven: Folkwoven In EnglandJonathan 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.
Abroad Again: Stowe: Reading A Garden
E5
Abroad Again: Stowe: Reading A GardenJonathan 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.