Magnetic North - ep1of2 (2008)
Jonathan Meades travels from the flatlands of Flanders to Germany's spectacular Baltic coast in an attempt to decipher exactly what northernness entails
'Abroad Again: Stowe, Reading A Garden' (2007)
Stowe is the greatest of Enlightenment landscapes, an enclosed world of the utmost pomp. It is a physcial creation which requires both literary key and a knowledge of picturesque theory. It is also an antholgy of works by the greatest names of the eighteenth century: Vanbrugh, Gibbs, Kent, Adam, Soane
Abroad Again: Father To The Man (2007)
Meades revisits the places his father took him to as a child in the hope that they may shed some light on the very obsession they fomented.
Nostalgic? Certainly. And literally too - in that it evinces a longing for a lost home. Sentimental? Hardly.
Abroad In Britain : In Search of Bohemia (1990)
Jonathan Meades goes in search of the buildings and possible continued lifestyle and ethos of "Bohemians", looking at some present artists and poets in their studios and habitations, and considering two of the places in Britain called Bohemia, particularly looking at the architecture and character of Bohemia, the suburb of Hastings.
The Reith Lectures: The Englishness of English Art (1955)
BBC Radio (Home Service)
Nikolaus Pevsner examines the love of nature and expression of liberty in English art.
In this lecture Pevsner looks at the painterly technique and rural observation of John Constable and links his rendering of English countryside to the English passion for landscape and the picturesque.
Magnetic North - ep1of2 (2008)
Jonathan Meades travels from the flatlands of Flanders to Germany's spectacular Baltic coast in an attempt to decipher exactly what northernness entails
Magnetic North - ep2of2 (2008)
Jonathan Meades travels through the Baltic states to Finland in an attempt to define northernness, and sees castles, Lith dancing, totem poles, terrestrial sputniks and crosses.
Magnetic North - ep1of2 (2008)
Jonathan Meades travels from the flatlands of Flanders to Germany's spectacular Baltic coast in an attempt to decipher exactly what northernness entails
