Abroad Again in Britain
Jonathan Meades gives a personal perspective of British history.
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Jonathan Meades explores some of the most exciting buildings and sites around Britain. The title refers to an architectural series Meades made for BBC Two in the 1990s called Abroad in Britain. He visits an imposing English Gothic building with the largest cloisters in Britain, one of Scotland's greatest landmarks,, a magnificent mansion containing some surprising technological innovations, the largest industrial site in the world 200 years ago and the exuberant seaside home that George IV built when he was Prince Regent.
1.Edinburgh Castle
02-08-200560mEdinburgh Castle. Built on the site of an extinct volcano, the history of one of Scotland's greatest landmarks is bloody, brutal and grimly fascinating. Jonathan Meades scales this...
2.Cragside House
09-08-200560mMagnificent mansion containing some surprising technological innovations. Cragside is a country house in the civil parish of Cartington in Northumberland, England. It was the firs...
3.Salisbury Cathedral
16-08-200560mSalisbury 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. He wonders how an...
4.Brighton Pavilion
23-08-200560mJonathan Meades ponders the exotic pleasure dome that is the bizarre legacy of the Prince Regent, George IV. Wild, theatrical and ostentatious, the folly is part Hindu, part Islami...
5.Portsmouth Dockyard
30-08-200560mFor centuries the world's biggest military/industrial complex, the dockyard stood as a testament to the fear of invasion, particularly by France. As he hears the stories of those w...
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