Jonathan explains why Lorraine has become the symbolic heart of France and a stronghold of a romantic nationalism expressed by diverse means. Show more

Jonathan Meades continues his quixotic tour of Scotland. He travels from Stirling to the Isles of Lewis and Harris, where he discovers serenity, Calvinism and peat bog bodies. Show more

Jonathan Meades concludes his tour of Scotland. Driving around some lower league football towns, he celebrates an oil refinery and extols the virtues of Irn Bru as a tanning agent. Show more

Jonathan looks at how the French delude themselves that they are indifferent towards the USA, despite huge evidence of cultural indebtedness. Show more

Jonathan Meades provides a tour of Essex, a county he sees as the home of picturesque villages, pre-war modernism and 19th-century social experiments. Show more

Jonathan Meades completes his journey in Helsinki and uncovers the peculiarly Finnish desire for eternal hibernation in man made wombs.

Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention since. Show more

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. Show more

Jonathan Meades completes his quartet on the architecture of European dictators of the 20th century. Franco's architectural legacy was more enduring and surprising than any of the others. Show more

Salisbury Cathedral boasts the highest spire in Britain. Jonathan Meades, who was raised in its shadow, returns to one of the country's finest medieval buildings. Show more

Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini's Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome. Show more

Jonathan Meades proceeds north through the Baltic states and discovers crazy spas, totem poles, crosses and the delights of stewed beaver. Show more

Focusing on the influence of Le Corbusier's post-war work, Jonathan Meades reclaims the reputation of once-maligned buildings that he argues stood for optimism and grandeur. Show more

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 bloody-minded. Show more

Cultural discussion show. Andrew Marr discusses art and music with opera director Daniel Kramer, philosopher Roger Scruton, biographer Franny Moyle and curator Julia Peyton-Jones. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Writer Jonathan Meades chooses English artist Edward Burra, who died in 1976 relatively unknown. With Matthew Parris. From 2014. Show more

Jonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it. Show more

Jonathan Meades visits Stowe - the greatest of Enlightenment landscapes, an enclosed world of the utmost pomp. Show more

Jonathan Meades tells the story of Letchworth, the first British garden city. Show more

Jonathan Meades revisits the places his father took him to as a child, in order to shed some light on his abiding obsession with buildings and places. Show more