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  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Sep 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001110H14
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,404 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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This three disc collection includes thirteen 10 shows drawn from those Meades has written and performed in since 1990. They belong to no genre but their own. They are staged essays, rehearsed artifices. They are biased and indifferent to 'balance'. By television’s standards they are visually elaborate and verbally complex. But they’re also comic entertainments, both witty and knockabout - they do not confuse seriousness with solemnity.

Synopsis

Acclaimed author and passionate traveller, Jonathan Meades shares his love of culture and adventure in these fascinating titles; ABROAD IN BRITAIN - IN SEARCH OF BOHEMIA and SEVERN HEAVEN, FURTHER ABROAD - BELGIUM and GET HIGH, EVEN FURTHER ABROAD - ABSENTEE LANDLORD, DOUBLE DUTCH and REMEMBER THE FUTURE, MEADES EATS... FAST FOOD, ABROAD AGAIN - FATHER TO THE MAN, and MAGNETIC NORTH episodes 1 and 2.

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Please supply!, 6 Jun 2008
By Mr. Dc Fowler "fowlerd17" (Portsmouth UK) - See all my reviews
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Whether you agree or not with Jonathan Meades his ideas are nearly always perceptive, stimulating and sometimes downright mischievously provocative. He relishes the use of language and uses it as a scalpel to dissect and expose. His approach - thank gods - is diametrically opposite to the majority of presenters and makers of Polyfilla television, and I apologise to the makers of Polyfilla, a fine product I might add, for the simile used here. We have brains but it would seem that the nation generally has tired of using them. Please make this and other Jonathan Meades DVDs available. We desperately need this sort of quality if our evolution from human to gibbon is to be avoided.
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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars And finally- hopefully just part one, 29 Jun 2008
By Julie Cutler (Coventry) - See all my reviews
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When this was due for release earlier in 2008 it was going to cost a stonking 75 quid and contain something like 8 discs. This has now dropped in price and slimmed to 3 disks. We are presented with a selection from the 50 programmes Mr Meades made between 1989-2007 (that's 4 prime ministers worth!) A well mannered surrealist, who gets more confident and inventive as time goes on. He "peels off the drab grey overcoat of preconception, to reveal the lime green posing pouch of reality beneath," as, in his words, his waistline expands and shrinks.

Extras (apart from subtitles) include a helpful introduction by Mr Meades and a rather scary interview with Dominic Lawson where he goes completely to pieces and ums and ahs all the way through.

Abroad In Britain : Severn Heaven
The Black Country playground of the Severn Estuary contains 700 "structures" of bodged together housing, (a more ambitious version of the allotment shed) delightful in their eccentric construction and now sadly viewed as eyesores.

Abroad In Britain : In Search of Bohemia
There are four places in Britain called "Bohemia"- why did people view this area of Czechoslovakia as a way to typecast an alternative racy sub culture.

Further Abroad : Get High
Jonathan unwisely tries to get over his fear of heights by making a documentary. It doesn't quite work out for him. His blow up body double has to perform some of the stunts.

Further Abroad : Belgium
My favourite. Was Magritte not a surrealist, but an accurate portrayer of Belgium life- only you and the man in the penguin costume can decide. The fantastically diverse Brussels suburbs are featured where every terrace house is different (due to lawyer-happy architects).

Even Further Abroad : Remember The Future
So much for the white heat of the technological revolution! Jonathan looks at the unashamed "futuristic" radio masts, power stations and cold war listening devices of the 50s and 60s.

Even Further Abroad : Absentee Landlord
Church architecture from Gothic to present day. Featuring a choir boy singing "Bat out of Hell".

Even Further Abroad : Double Dutch
The influence of Dutch culture on Norfolk- vast expanses of drained agribusiness fields and gables. Although there are also similarities with Alabama.

Meades Eats... Fast Food
We owe our national obsession with fried food to Sephardic Jews (Fish and chips first appeared in the mid 19th century). Fast food is all about appearance and deception. The vegetarian in me laughed as he constructed a sausage- first take your condom.....

Abroad Again: Father To The Man
Jonathan explains how the influence of his father formed his obsession with architecture.

Magnetic North - 1+2
Bored with banal phrases such as "the Venice of the North", Jonathan seeks to reaffirm the rights of the North of Europe to be considered as an architectural and cultural gem. We explore the still telling influence of the mediaeval Hanseatic League cities. A very impressive essay with lots of shots of spirit and herring.

I was very impressed by the whole collection and frankly I'm baying at the moon for some more!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars coming soon, 9 Jun 2008
By Mr. Stephen Marland (Manchester UK) - See all my reviews
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DVD held up by problems in obtaining copyright release for soundtrack music

Mr M always displays an at times, bizarre and catholic taste in music hence delays in sourcing copyright

Worth waiting for I guess - beating aside the bland Palin, Titchmarsh and Dimbleby eyed view of our world
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Jonathon Meades
Very entertaining and informative DVDs. Knocks spots of almost everything else on TV. Rather long words though - watch it with a dictionary to hand.
Published 1 day ago by A. P. Mackay

4.0 out of 5 stars Great films, poor product
Meades's documentary style is very good and quite exceptional among British television. These documentaries are well-paced, clearly presented and beautifully shot. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. S. Barclay

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent Jonathan Meades
Eclectic and eccentric. Indescribable. Jonathan Meades does not patronise; he assumes intelligence, wit and perception from his audience. Read more
Published 4 months ago by S. A. Bain

5.0 out of 5 stars Meades must...
... be released in full. This tantalising subset of his output that the BBC has deigned to release is scarcely adequate as an aperitif. Read more
Published 5 months ago by John Ferngrove

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential viewing.
This country needs Jonathan Meades to be placed in front of a camera at every possible opportunity, indeed he should be allowed to argue his points in his own inimitable way until... Read more
Published 6 months ago by A reader

5.0 out of 5 stars It was a gift
It was purchased as a gift for someone who had seen the series (Jonathan Meades Collection) on TV and presumably theefore thought it as very good.I haven't heard any complaints!
Published 8 months ago by P. Armstrong

3.0 out of 5 stars A disaffected Betjemen for the 21st Century?
I bought this box set based on 1990s memories of BBC broadcasts, but it seems that perhaps I was fondly remembering Meades frequent, shorter and more focused contributions to 'One... Read more
Published 9 months ago by PAO 1807

4.0 out of 5 stars Give us more Meadesy
One of the blurb reviews describes Jonathan Meades as a "surrealist" and a "dadaist", which might suggest that his documentaries are unstructured, self-indulgent ramblings that... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Frank T

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Brilliant
I remember watching Meades in the early 1990's when I was a young teenager with my mum. Televison marketing types would probably expect someone so young to be put-off by Meades's... Read more
Published 10 months ago by E. Hargrave

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Brilliant
Jonathon Meades has produced, what to my mind is, some of the best British television of the last 20 years on Art, Culture and Architecture, in a style that is both serious and... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Michael Mcclean

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