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Jonathan Meades

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UKBorn January 21, 1947

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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The Joy of Essex with Jonathan Meades

The Joy of Essex with Jonathan Meades

2018
Jonathan Meades on Jargon

Jonathan Meades on Jargon

2018
Bunkers Brutalism and Bloodymindedness

Bunkers Brutalism and Bloodymindedness

2014
Jonathan Meades On France

Jonathan Meades On France

2012
Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter

Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter

2009
Jonathan Meades - Magnetic North

Jonathan Meades - Magnetic North

2008
Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again

2007
Abroad Again in Britain

Abroad Again in Britain

2005
Meades Eats

Meades Eats

2003
Victoria Died in 1901 and is Still Alive Today

Victoria Died in 1901 and is Still Alive Today

2001
Heart Bypass: Birmingham

Heart Bypass: Birmingham

1998
Even Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades

Even Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades

1997
Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades

Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades

1994
Abroad in Britain

Abroad in Britain

1990