Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades

Birthday: 1947-01-21

Place of Birth: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Biography: 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".

Movies

Franco Building with Jonathan Meades
Franco Building with Jonathan Meades

Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his gaze onto Spanish dictator Francisco Franco....

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Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism
Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism

Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turn...

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tvSSFBM EHKL
tvSSFBM EHKL

A surreal film about surrealism....

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Jerry Building: Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany
Jerry Building: Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany

Jonathan Meades explores the architecture of Nazi Germany, from its holiday camps to its concentrati...

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Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture

Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments....

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Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali
Surrealissimo: The Trial of Salvador Dali

A comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film ch...

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