Seasons
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.
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.
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
Jonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it.
Description
Jonathan Meades Explores architecture and the British psyche once again in this series.
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Genres
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CastJonathan Meades
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Channel
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Premiere DateMay 09, 2007
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Rating0 (0)
