More Meades

[muzzer]

I'd rather watch Meades in shades and a suit sending himself up than Andrew Marr patronising the nation. Difficult balance to strike innit.

[gurnemanz]

Usually something worth watching on, if you can sort the grain from the chaff. I shall watch two things on BBC4 tonight - Review show and John Bridcut on Requiems. The Farsi feature film on after those looks potentially interesting. I enjoyed Meades on the Baltic a few years ago.

[muzzer]

Speaking of which I've just happened upon a Meades doc called "Jerry Builders - Unholy Relics of Nazi Germany'. I may have to tag it 'Unintentional Partridge'.

[mercia]

Meades ............. sending himself up

is that what he's doing ? I'm never quite sure

[muzzer]

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Ditto Robert Hughes. To paraphrase Zelda Fitzgerald "She was never bored because she was never being boring"

[french frank]

at one time there wasn't a BBC2, so presumably when BBC2 came along programme makers bemoaned their endeavours being transferred to the new unpopular channel

Can't remember. Perhaps there was so little arty stuff on BBC One that they were glad to have an opportunity to make programmes anywhere. BBC Two didn't have as much competition as BBC Four has now. And starting out being digital only put it at a bit of a disadvantage in not being immediately available to everyone. Whether things will change now all channels are digital - who knows?

[teamsaint]

Hmm. But he plays with formats. His presentation is never staid or dull, but imaginative and often ironic. I don't count him among the arm-wagglers.

plus he can eat his own weight in raw /pickled herring.

40 hours of " music and arts" programming on BBC1 per year, presumably including Glasto.

[mercia]

Perhaps there was so little arty stuff on BBC One that they were glad to have an opportunity to make programmes anywhere.

perhaps Jonathan Meades should say to himself "there's so little arty stuff on BBCs 1&2 that I'm glad to have the opportunity to make programmes for BBC4"


with that I think I've come full circle

[french frank]

perhaps Jonathan Meades should say to himself "there's so little arty stuff on BBCs 1&2 that I'm glad to have the opportunity to make programmes for BBC4"

Well, maybe he is. But it wouldn't alter the fact that on BBC Two he would have bigger audiences. I've just been checking through Radio Times. I can't see much sign of the former Director-General's proposal 'Making BBC Two the home of ambitious knowledge-building programmes, with a wide range of specialist subjects and more authored, expert programmes .... '. In fact I'm not really very impressed by BBC Four either: some cultural documentaries, but not a lot I would call 'the arts'. And music is now apparently mainly a radio genre.

with that I think I've come full circle

[eighthobstruction]

Tee Hee....pick a man/woman....an extremely erudite intellectual man/woman and make them the bench mark for your watching desire.... Meades!!....I love you folks....



....The Likely Lads ....tee hee ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

I quite agree, her work is in the tradition of literary interviewers like George Plimpton. Not only that she has just produced a well reviewed book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Brillian...4091048&sr=1-1

me too

[Stephen Whitaker]

I have no problem with BBC 4 (see earlier post in which I state the only telly I watch all week is on BBC 4 (and is a repeat)) except the dross they put on it. It's full of the kind of lightweight historical documentaries Brian Sewell (and Meades) bemoan, with people on location waggling their arms around. Whatever happened to voice overs? Why do I need to see someone mooning up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to show me it is profound?

Wasn't it Lord Clark of "Civilisation" who started the tradition of standing in front of "Art" and telling us why it is profound?

[Serial_Apologist]

New Meades 2-parter, BBC4, 1 this coming Sunday Choice - 16th Feb

BBC4

9.00 Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloody-Mindedness: Concrete Poetry

1/2. Jonathan Meades presents a two-part documentary that celebrates 20th-century Brutalist architecture, which typically takes the form of block-like concrete constructions. In the first edition, he takes its origins in the martial architecture of the Second World War, the Modern Gothic style - widely despised during the Victorian era - and even further back in the time of Sir John Vanbrugh.

Repeated Weds 19th 12.40 am

[Honoured Guest]

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[Serial_Apologist]

YeGods! A trail on The Radio 3 Forum! The world totters!

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