BBC Two 1990 - 2007 5 seasons 25 eps U Ended

Abroad in Britain

Name: Abroad in Britain
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jonathan Meades

1990 - 2007 5 seasons 25 eps U

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S5 · E1 · May 9, 2007

Abroad Again: Father to the Man Episode 1

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.

50 min

S5 · E2 · May 16, 2007

Abroad Again: On the Brandwagon Episode 2

The 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.

50 min

S5 · E3 · May 23, 2007

Abroad Again: The Case of the Disappearing Architect Episode 3

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.

50 min

S5 · E4 · May 30, 2007

Abroad Again: Heaven: Folkwoven In England Episode 4

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.

50 min

S5 · E5 · Jun 6, 2007

Abroad Again: Stowe: Reading A Garden Episode 5

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.

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Abroad in Britain

Season 5

Abroad Again: Father to the Man Episode 1

Abroad Again: On the Brandwagon Episode 2

Abroad Again: The Case of the Disappearing Architect Episode 3

Abroad Again: Heaven: Folkwoven In England Episode 4

Abroad Again: Stowe: Reading A Garden Episode 5

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Abroad in Britain

Season 5

Abroad Again: Father to the Man Episode 1

Abroad Again: On the Brandwagon Episode 2

Abroad Again: The Case of the Disappearing Architect Episode 3

Abroad Again: Heaven: Folkwoven In England Episode 4

Abroad Again: Stowe: Reading A Garden Episode 5

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