Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

Synopsis

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

First Air Date: 2007-05-09

Last Air Date: 2007-06-06

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 5

Created By: Jonathan Meades

Networks: BBC Two

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Ep. 1: Father to the Man (2007-05-09)

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.
Ep. 2: On The Brandwagon (2007-05-16)

Jonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it.
Ep. 3: The Case of the Disappearing Architect (2007-05-23)

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
Ep. 4: Heaven: Folkwoven in England (2007-05-30)

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.
Ep. 5: Stowe - Reading a Garden (2007-06-06)

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.