Jonathan Meades
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Jonathan Meades is a British writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an author and television presenter. Meades studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) c.1967.
Food writing
He has written reviews and articles for The Times for many years, and has been restaurant critic of The Times newspaper since 1986. Meades was voted Best Food Journalist in the 1999 Glenfiddich Awards.
Television work
He is well known to British television audiences for his series about architecture Abroad with Jonathan Meades and its sequels Further Abroad with Jonathan Meades and Even Further Abroad With Jonathan Meades, the last shown on BBC2 in 1997. These visually-innovative documentaries looked at neglected forms of English architecture such as caravan parks and golf courses, and at the place that famous buildings hold in the British popular imagination. Meades' television work also includes a two part series about the architectural legacy of both the Third Reich, Jerry Building and Stalin's Russia, Joe Building.
Meades has also written and presented a documentary called Surrealism (2001) for BBC2, which sought to expound on surrealism in a manner that fitted the subject. Perhaps inevitably, given Meades' approach and his choice of topic, some found it bewildering and often psychedelic. However, it was nevertheless distinctive and humorous in a field often populated only by de rigueur and comme il faut offerings.
Published works
- This is Their Life (1979) ISBN 0861010450
- The Illustrated Atlas of the World's Great Buildings (1980) ISBN 0861010590
- Filthy English (1984) ISBN 0224021451 (Short stories)
- English Extremists (Blueprint Monographs) (1998) ISBN 0947795685
- Peter Knows What Dick Likes (1989) ISBN 0586201483
- Pompey (1993) ISBN 0099308215
- Architectural Expressions (2001) ISBN 0471496677
- "The Times" Restaurant Guide 2002 ISBN 0304359394
- Incest and Morris Dancing (2002) ISBN 0304359386
- The Fowler Family Business (2002) ISBN 1857029046
TV works
- Abroad with Jonathan Meades
- Further Abroad with Jonathan Meades
- Jerry Building (1994) BBC Two
- Even Further Abroad with Jonathan Meades (1997).
- Heart By-Pass, Jonathan Meades in Birmingham (1998).
- The Victorians (2001) BBC Two
- Surrealism (2001) for BBC Two
- Abroad Again in Britain [link] (2005) BBC Four
- Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture (2006) BBC Four
- Meades Eats: Fast Food (2006) BBC Four
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