Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex

[Nick Armstrong]

I do like this type of program Meades has ideas/philosophies but does not get caught in the trap of being a celebrity like Hitchens and Self....doesn't used obscure words long since obsolete, and obstacles to flow and understanding in audio and television (if you are reading those words you have the chance to stop and look them up) [and raise eyebrows at the pretention; possibly] Yes kernelbogey the directors touch was deft....But Meades does have presence....imagine AC Grayling or Scruton in the same situation [I imeadiately see Scruton in tweeds and expensive shooting wellingtons....].....The ambience , clean ambience of vision and soundscape have been left behind, and should be explored more. We continually have prog's about Roman/Greek/ South American/Euro Art and Culture guided by erudite presenters walking about, and on the screen as much as the works etc they look at....which fill us with information and conjecture, but please isn't there room for programmes which just allows us words, music vision that allow us just to float through making our own minds up

Good post, 8tho! I heartily agree.

[eighthobstruction]

I'm sitting here listening to the Nebraska album by BS (a masterpiece) fantastic acoustic lonely open-spaced sound....thinking of Robert Hughes and the Shock of the New....(who in a way meades may be modeling himself on)[ why not , I model myself on a kind of outsider autodidactic {?} backwoods Jacob Bronowski]....(they cannot touch you for it!!)....

[JFLL]

... , I model myself on a kind of outsider autodidactic {?} backwoods Jacob Bronowski]....

Ever thought of setting up a colony in Essex?

[eighthobstruction]

I'm still working on my image....thinking of adding sexy Dalhi Lama to the list....

[bach736]

DJ definitely not for real....

The dj was played by the actor Michael Fenton Stevens - well known for many comic roles and a founder member of the Hee Bee Gee Bees.

[gradus]

Cracking good programme. Were the sunglasses and Blues Brothers gear a nod to TOWIE?

[Mr Pee]

I didn't actually watch the programme, for two reasons.

1. I'm not remotely interested in Essex.

2. I think Jonathan Meades is a pretentious pseud.

On the other hand, I think Springsteen's Nebraska is a superb album. "State Trooper" sends a shiver down my spine.

[Beef Oven]

I didn't actually watch the programme, for two reasons.

1. I'm not remotely interested in Essex.

2. I think Jonathan Meades is a pretentious pseud.

On the other hand, I think Springsteen's Nebraska is a superb album. "State Trooper" sends a shiver down my spine.

Nebraska

[Old Grumpy]

Cracking good programme. Were the sunglasses and Blues Brothers gear a nod to TOWIE?

Standard Meades attire, I think.

OG

[kernelbogey]

...I'm not remotely interested in Essex....

Nor was I - but I thought he effortlessly dismantled the stereotypes I had swallowed and made it as interesting as any other English county.

[kernelbogey]

Can anybody enlighten me - was this a one-off programme? I had assumed that it was a series but the iPlayer website pages are not very informative: it looks like there might have been four episodes, or perhaps it was repeated three times. Anyway it doesn't (they don't) seem to be available now.

[vinteuil]

I think it was a one-off.

[Old Grumpy]

Can anybody enlighten me - was this a one-off programme? I had assumed that it was a series but the iPlayer website pages are not very informative: it looks like there might have been four episodes, or perhaps it was repeated three times. Anyway it doesn't (they don't) seem to be available now.

I wondered that too - I think it was on several times in short succession, but each time the same programme.

OG

[Nick Armstrong]

I think it was a one-off.

It was indeed.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...... as is Meades!