Jonathan Meades

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1947-01-21

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Biography

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".

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L'Atlantide
Writer
Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism
Writer
Franco Building with Jonathan Meades
Writer
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Writer
Jerry Building: Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany
Writer
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture
Writer
Presenter
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Presenter
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Presenter
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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {22}

Self

2019-08-27 0

Franco Building with Jonathan Meades

Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his gaze onto Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2016-06-01 6.5

Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism

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 ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself - Presenter / Various Characters

2001-09-29 0

tvSSFBM EHKL

A surreal film about surrealism. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself - Presenter

2006-04-29 0

Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture

Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments. ...
Genre :History, Documentary

Himself - Presenter

1994-10-31 7

Jerry Building: Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany

Jonathan Meades explores the architecture of Nazi Germany, from its holiday camps to its concentration camps. ...
Genre :History, Documentary

The Nihilist

2002-03-02 5.8

Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali

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. ...
Genre :History, TV Movie, Drama, Comedy

Self

1998-05-31 0

Heart Bypass: Birmingham

Jonathan Meades offers an affectionate critique of Birmingham - home of Balti, ELO, heavy metal, conferences, 'Crossroads' and Cadbury's - from its architecture and canals to the Brummie accent and hu ...
Genre :Documentary

2001-09-29 0

tv-ssfbm ehkl Surreal Film

Surreal. Totally surreal. Well surreal. Double surreal. What does "surreal" mean? Does it mean anything? Documentary about Surrealism ...
Genre :

Himself

1990-10-29 0

Abroad in Britain

Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2014-02-16 0

Bunkers Brutalism and Bloodymindedness

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 precurso ...
Genre :Documentary

1997-02-19 0

Even Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades

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. ...
Genre :Documentary

2012-01-18 0

Jonathan Meades On France

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 ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2007-05-09 0

Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

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

1994-11-03 0

Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades

Set In a distant Present. In a land where there is no such word as 'ordinary' and where every.... AAhh.. AATCHOO! ...
Genre :Documentary

1997-03-15 0

Travels with Pevsner

Series in which presenters explore architecture in the footsteps of Nikolaus Pevsner. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2003-03-01 6

Mark Lawson Talks To

A series in which arts presenter Mark Lawson has a 60-minute in-depth conversation with a notable figure. ...
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Self

2008-02-21 9

Jonathan Meades - Magnetic North

Jonathan Meades travels from the flatlands of Flanders to Germany's spectacular Baltic coast in an attempt to decipher exactly what northernness entails. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2005-08-02 9

Abroad Again in Britain

Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2009-11-09 0

Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter

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 ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2001-01-07 0

Victoria Died in 1901 and is Still Alive Today

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 o ...
Genre :Documentary

2018-05-27 10

Jonathan Meades on Jargon

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 ...
Genre :Documentary

Self - Presenter

1988-11-01 0

Building Sights

Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture. ...
Genre :Documentary