BBC Two 2007 1 season 5 eps Ended

Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

Name: Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jonathan Meades

2007 1 season 5 eps

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S1 · E1 · May 9, 2007

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.

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50 min

S1 · E2 · May 16, 2007

On The Brandwagon Episode 2

Jonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it.

50 min

S1 · E3 · May 23, 2007

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

S1 · E4 · May 30, 2007

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

S1 · E5 · Jun 6, 2007

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.

5 episodes in Season 1

Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again