Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades was born and brought up in Salisbury. He spent four years at school in Taunton where he learnt about scrumpy and shirking. He subsequently went to RADA. He lived till 2006 years ago in central London when he moved to beyond the back of beyond near Bordeaux in order to devote himself to conversations about combine harvesters. He is the author of several books including three works of fiction - Filthy English, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business - and two anthologies of journalism Peter Knows What Dick Likes and Incest and Morris Dancing. He is currently working on a book entitled An Encyclopaedia of Myself.
He has written and performed in some fifty television shows on predominantly topographical subjects such as self-built shacks, the utopian avoidance of right angles, the lure of vertigo, the deleterious effects of garden cities, the buildings occasioned by beer, Birmingham’s appeal, megastructures, Worcestershire, the everyday surrealism of Belgium : certain of these are available on The Jonathan Meades Collection DVD.
Magnetic North (2008) - a journey from Flanders to Helsinki - was described by Robert Hanks in The Independent as having ‘a sweep, an intellectual confidence and a sense of mischief you won’t find anywhere else on TV. Meades is an artist of television.’ The 2009 series Off Kilter was described by Simonm Heffer in the Daily Telegraph as ‘a masterpiece’. He has been described by Will Buckley in The Observer as ‘by furlongs the most erudite broadcaster of the age’ and by Time Out as ‘a heavily sedated Sir Geoffrey Howe.’
Literary – Georgina Capel
Foreign Rights – Abi Fellows
Film & TV Rights – Georgina Capel