Jonathan Meades

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Jonathan Meades (born 1947) is a British writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an author and broadcaster. Meades studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) c.1967.

He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.

Contents 1 Food writing 2 Television work 3 Published works 4 TV works 5 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 2006. 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.

[edit] Published works

• This is Their Life (1979) ISBN 0-86101-045-0
• The Illustrated Atlas of the World's Great Buildings (1980) ISBN 0-86101-059-0
• Filthy English (1984) ISBN 0-224-02145-1 (Short stories)
• English Extremists (Blueprint Monographs) (1998) ISBN 0-947795-68-5
• Peter Knows What Dick Likes (1989) ISBN 0-586-20148-3
• Pompey (1993) ISBN 0-09-930821-5
• Architectural Expressions (2001) ISBN 0-471-49667-7
• "The Times" Restaurant Guide 2002 ISBN 0-304-35939-4
• Incest and Morris Dancing (2002) ISBN 0-304-35938-6
• The Fowler Family Business (2002) ISBN 1-85702-904-6

[edit] TV works

• The Victorian House (1988) Channel 4
• Abroad with Jonathan Meades
• Further Abroad with Jonathan Meades
• Without Walls: J'Accuse - Vegetarians (1995) Channel 4
• Jerry Building - Unholy Relics of the Third Reich (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 [1] (2005) BBC Four
• Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture (2006) BBC Four
• Meades Eats: Fast Food (2006) BBC Four

[edit] External links

• Jonathan Meades' Official Website