Jonathan Meades
Birthday: Born in 1947-01-21 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
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".
TV Credits
tv-ssfbm ehkl Surreal Film
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Surreal. Totally surreal. Well surreal. Double surreal. What does "surreal" mean? Does it mean anything? Documentary about Surrealism...
Abroad in Britain
Character: Himself
Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain....
Bunkers Brutalism and Bloodymindedness
Character: Himself
Two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist architecture in an homage to a style that he sees a brave, bold and bloodyminded. Tracing its precursors to the once-hated Victorian edifices described as Modern Gothic and before that to the unapologetic baroque visions created by John Vanbrugh, as well as the martial architecture of World War II, Meades celebrates the emergence of the Brutalist spirit in his usual provocative and incisive style. ...
Jonathan Meades On France
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Jonathan Meades scrutinises the 95 per cent of France that Brits drive through and don't notice en route to the 5 per cent that conforms to their expectation...
Even Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades
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My name is Jonathan Meades and this Series is called 'Even Further Abroad'. It peels off the drab grey overcoat of preconception to reveal the lime green posing pouch of reality beneath....
Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again
Character: Himself
Jonathan Meades Explores architecture and the British psyche once again in this series....
Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades
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Set In a distant Present. In a land where there is no such word as 'ordinary' and where every.... AAhh.. AATCHOO!...
Travels with Pevsner
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Series in which presenters explore architecture in the footsteps of Nikolaus Pevsner....
Mark Lawson Talks To
Character: Self
A series in which arts presenter Mark Lawson has a 60-minute in-depth conversation with a notable figure....
Abroad Again in Britain
Character: Self
Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history....
Jonathan Meades - Magnetic North
Character: Self
Jonathan Meades travels from the flatlands of Flanders to Germany's spectacular Baltic coast in an attempt to decipher exactly what northernness entails....
Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter
Character: Self
Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered lists of towns only known from football coupons...
Victoria Died in 1901 and is Still Alive Today
Character: Self
Jonathan Meades's personal, entertaining and deliberately provocative journey through Victorian architecture. From fantasy castles to the House of Parliament, he explores the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of Victorian society, using a combination of comic sketches, dance routines and riotous bad taste. Meades concludes that the British obsession with escapism and the desire to live in the past means Queen Victoria is still very much alive today....
Jonathan Meades on Jargon
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In this provocative television essay, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his forensic gaze on that modern phenomenon that drives us all up the wall - jargon. In a wide-ranging programme he dissects politics, the law, football commentary, business, the arts, tabloid-speak and management consultancy to show how jargon is used to cover up, confuse and generally keep us in the dark. He contrasts this with the world of slang, which unlike jargon actually gets to the heart of whatever it's...
Building Sights
Character: Self - Presenter
Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture....
Movie Credits
Franco Building with Jonathan Meades
Character: Self
Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his gaze onto Spanish dictator Francisco Franco....
Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism
Character: Himself
Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his attention to another notorious 20th-century European dictator, Mussolini. His travels take him to Rome, Milan, Genoa, the new town of Sabaudia and the vast military memorials of Redipuglia and Monte Grappa. When it comes to the buildings of the fascist era, Meades discovers a dictator who couldn't dictate, with Mussolini caught between the contending forces of modernism and a revivalism that...
Jerry Building: Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany
Character: Himself - Presenter
Jonathan Meades explores the architecture of Nazi Germany, from its holiday camps to its concentration camps....
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture
Character: Himself - Presenter
Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments....
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Character: The Nihilist
A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film charts Dali's meteoric rise from obscurity to the world's most publicised artist....