Abroad in Britain (1990)
Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain.
Seasons & Episode
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Meades investigates a new age community beside a Scottish air base, a furniture factory in a Dorset wood, and an experimental school in East Grinstead, all of which are geometrically linked by buildings that shun the orthodoxy of the right angle.
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Meades investigates unusual houses, houseboats and lifestyles of people on the Solent.
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Jonathan Meades considers the style of army and military buildings and architectural styles.
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There are a surprising number of places in Britain called Bohemia. Even more surprising is the fact that two of them - in Hastings and the New Forest - have connections to the artistic bohemia of such painters as Augustus John, two of whose studios demonstrate how much domestic design would take from this type of building. Features a red Lada that's a mobile tip.