Starring
J.Meades

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...

 

Magnetic North
Jonathan Meades

"To be northern," Jonathan Meades declared near the start of Magnetic North, "is to be for ever ill at ease with oneself".

Is this true? Like so much that Meades proposes, it won't stand up to much dispassionate scrutiny, although it feels true when he says it. And certainly, it's not altogether false: as he pointed out, in this country, we seem to spend an inordinate amount of time and money chasing after the south, taking our holidays there, eating the food, drinking the wine, but none of this can change the fact that we are of the north.

 

Interview
Mark Lawson

Writer and television performer Jonathan Meades discusses his life and career with Mark Lawson. In his unmistakable dark suits and sunglasses, Meades has presented many opinionated and sometimes controversial documentaries on architecture, culture and food. Meades talks about the secrets of his distinctive presenting style, gaining weight as restaurant critic for The Times and his Humanist beliefs.

 

Jerry Building
Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany

Meades travels to Berlin to look at the mind-boggling array of monumental buildings that were constrcucted for the master race and still stand - such as the 20,000 room, mile long mulyistory beach flats for the bronzed Aryans to take their holidays at.

 

Joe Building
The Stalin Memorial Lecture

Jonathan Meades dissects Stalinist architecture as if it were a Russian doll, revealing layers of style and a legacy of monumental buildings. Stalin himself was airbrushed out of Russian history in the late 1950s, but the buildings and icons created by his regime cannot be seen in isolation from the man who ruled the Soviet Union with an iron hand. Alanoz said: "Actually I don't trust a word he says to be true, I just adore his surreal style and the way he constantly finds something new to insult people with and never cares how offensive he's being.

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Abroad Again In Britain

Jonathan Meades explores some of the most exciting buildings and sites around Britain. The title refers to an architectural series Meades made for BBC Two in the 1990s called Abroad in Britain.

He visits an imposing English Gothic building with the largest cloisters in Britain, one of Scotland's greatest landmarks,, a magnificent mansion containing some surprising technological innovations, the largest industrial site in the world 200 years ago and the exuberant seaside home that George IV built when he was Prince Regent.

    Edinburgh Castle
    Cragside House
    Salisbury Cathedral
    Brighton Pavilion
    Portsmouth Dockyard

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Celebrity Mastermind
30th Aninversary

Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. They answer 2 minutes of a their chosen specialist subject and 2 minutes of general knowledge questions. I'll not say who won.

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Surreal Film

The title is the words "Surreal Film", with each word shifted one letter forwards (or backwards depending where you start from) in the alphabet.

This is a documentry about surrealism in a surrealist style to illustrate Meades presentation in a visual way to express "cerebral afflictions".

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Victoria Died in 1901
& IS Still Alive Today

Starring
Jonathan Meades
Christopher Biggins Christian Adams
Lily Meades

Jonathan Meades explores the architectural legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.

She is supposed to have departed this Earth a hundred years ago, our Queen and Empress Victoria Regina. She is supposed to have slipped away, to be reunited with her beloved Albert and his cock ring. Can we be sure of this? It sometimes feels as though she's all around us.

Think of all the pubs, train stations the statues of her, and buildings named after Victoria - she's definately still alive today.

Apart from the Virgin Mary there are more statues of Victoria than anyone else.

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Travels With Pevsner
Worcestershire

What can I say that hasn't already been said about Nikolaus Pevsner, or Mr Meades for that matter.

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Heart Bypass
Birmingham

Jonathan Meades subjects Birmingham to an affectionate, but warts-and-all examination in this television documentary. He tells Terry Grimley why he has always been fascinated by the city.

Not part of any of his travel series, it comes after Even Further Abrod and before Victoria Died in 1901 and Is Still Alive Today (WANTED).

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Abroad In Britain

The first in his series about architecture Abroad in Britain. These visually-innovative documentaries look at neglected forms of British architecture such as caravan parks and golf courses, and at the place that famous buildings hold in the British popular imagination.

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Further Abroad In Britain

Series in which Jonathan Meades explores extreme examples of architecture from around the world, focussing on a variety of topics.

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The Victorian House

Series in which Jonathan Meades explores elements of a typical Victorian House. 1 episode of the 6 missing.

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WANTED - Anything listed below and any I have missed out.
Furthur Abroad (5 episdoes) 1994
Even Furthur Abroad (5 episodes) 1997
Meades Eats (3 episodes) 2003
Abroad Again In Britain (5 episodes) 2004
Abroad Again (5 episodes) 2007
Soapstar Superchef [judge] (5 episodes) 2007
Masterchef 2001
J'Accuse 1995
ANYTHING ELSE CHECK ABOVE FIRST...

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