Podcasts about Jonathan Meades

Theo Delaney's guest is the brilliant programme maker Jonathan Meades whose distinctive TV documentaries on history and architecture have earned him countless plaudits and whose writing is equally celebrated. He has just finished his latest novel Empty Wigs and is a sup[porter of Southampton FC.https://www.jonathanmeades.co.uk/@LifeGoalsTD @theodelaney https://www.theodelaney.com/life-goals-links

Part two with the inimitable Jonathan Meades the programme maker and presenter who is also a prolific writer and whose new novel Empty Wigs is currently being readied for publication. Among the Southampton fan's chosen scorers here are Ward-Prowse and Le Tissier.https://www.jonathanmeades.co.uk/@LifeGoalsTD @theodelaney https://www.theodelaney.com/life-goals-links

Writer and filmmaker Jonathan Meades introduces and reads his review of Tina Brown's book about the royal family, The Palace Papers, from April this year.Read the piece here: https://lrb.me/meadespodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How did the English go from eating cans of baked beans to dribbling olive oil over a fresh rocket and sundried tomato salad? In this episode, we'll look at how a movement of cooks and cookery writers helped to challenge the status of elite, classical French cuisine as the gold standard of food in England with provincial French and Mediterranean cooking. It's also the story of the rise of a new middle class movement whose European tastes not only assumed a central place at our dinner tables but lent politics and culture in England a repertoire of feelings and sentiments that have been mobilised in debates around the EU and inequality in Britain.Featuring: Shaun Hill, Fay Maschler, Rowley Leigh, Jonathan Meades, Dan Lepard, Margot Henderson, Anna Tobias, Jeremy Lee, Ben Highmore, Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver.This show was produced by Lewis Bassett with music from Forest DLG. Get extra content and support the show on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the 700th episode of Little Atoms, and Writer and filmmaker Jonathan Meades returns for the tenth time to talk to Neil About his new collection of Journalism Pedro and Ricky Come Again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 10, 2021 is: majuscule • MAJ-uh-skyool • noun : a large letter (such as a capital) Examples: "At least the random emphatic majuscules on blogs are uncommon enough to make a rhetorical impression, though perhaps one not quite worthy of Serious Journalism." — Katy Waldman, Slate, 25 Aug. 2016 "It is the name Meyer-Decker—the eleven letters, the two majuscules, the hyphen that's a bridge to grander things—which ambushes him, which jumps from its inky thicket and assails him at last." — Jonathan Meades, Pompey, 1993 Did you know? Majuscule looks like the complement to minuscule, and the resemblance is no coincidence. Minuscule appeared in the early 18th century as a word for a lowercase letter, then later as the word for certain ancient and medieval writing styles which had "small forms." Minuscule then acquired a more general adjectival use for anything very small. Majuscule is the counterpart to minuscule when it comes to letters, but it never developed a broader sense (despite the fact that its Latin ancestor majusculus has the broad meaning "rather large"). The adjective majuscule also exists, as does its synonym majuscular. Not surprisingly, the adjectives share the noun's specificity, referring only to large letters or to a style using such letters.

'Tolley Dean' will feature in a forthcoming book by Jonathan Meades. More from Jonathan Meades can be found at http://jonathanmeades.co.uk/

Directive 1999/56/EC adapting to technical progress Council Directive 78/933/EEC relating to the installation of lighting and light-signalling devices on wheeled agricultural and forestry tractors - Ottolights! Jonathan Meades on Belgium Culture Corner: Popgun Press SKZ Cartoons Negotiations - a DexEU sitcom Sponsored by Best for Doncaster (which will be a surprise to them) We welcome potential sponsors - but we don’t want your money! If you represent an organisation that is working to stop Brexit, and you’d like some free publicity, contact us via this website or DM one of us on Twitter. Intro/outro music: “Going up the Wrong Way” by Bai Kamara Jr, from his album "The Mystical Survivors and Some Rare Earthlings". Available Fnac, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon etc. http://www.baikamara.com

Jonathan Meades is a writer on architecture, culture and food, a novelist and television presenter, and a longtime friend of Little Atoms. This episode, marking the release of a boxset of Jonathan's TV work, was first broadcast in October 2008. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With Jonathan Meades, author of The Plagiarist in the Kitchen. Presented by Sam Leith.

Writer, filmmaker, architectural critic and essayist Jonathan Meades was in conversation with his publisher, John Mitchinson (Unbound Books) to discuss his career in literature, criticism and journalism. Meades’ literary works include novels Filthy English (1984) and Pompey (1993) and autobiography An Encyclopaedia of Myself (2014). His most recent work, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen (2017), is his first cookbook. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Co-founder and chief publishing officer of Unbound Interview starts at 8:56 and ends at 42:25 “It's not so much the elephant in the room. We are the room inside the elephant, if you look at the size that Amazon is growing as an online retailer. That kind of troubles me, because I feel a little bit like when publishing does get round to direct-to-consumer it will already be too late. ” News “Amazon Will Be the Fifth Largest Bookstore Chain” by Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly - June 1, 2017 Amazon Fresh “Amazon is going after Walmart with a 45 percent discount on Prime for lower-income shoppers” by Jason Del Rey at Recode - June 6, 2017 Tech Tips “Amazon Unveils New Kindle Highlight and Note System” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - June 6, 2017 Interview with John Mitchinson John Mitchinson on TKC 213 in 2012 Unbound Unbound co-founders Justin Pollard and Dan Kiernan QI (Quite Interesting), the BBC quiz show Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts Kickstarter and Indiegogo Unbound books by Jonathan Meades and Jonathan Coe Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic Books, cofounder of the Literary Hub website (Click here for Morgan's appearance on The Kindle Chronicles in May of 2016 at BookExpo America.) Unbound's Backlisted podcast hosted by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller (author of The Year of Reading Dangerously) at SoundCloud and iTunes Unbound Digital books at Amazon.com A Murder of Crows by Ian Skewis The Elegant Art of Falling Apart by Jessica Jones - $10.99 on Kindle, or $7.00 at Unbound (.mobi file download) A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough - $7.00 at Unbound Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher - $15.39 on Kindle or $22.97 in hardcover at Amazon.com; $15 eBook or $35 special hardback edition at Unbound The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla (Unbound) Tatterdemalion by Sylvia Linsteadt, illustrated by Rima Staines (Unbound) I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon Content “5 Good Summer Reads” by Bill Gates at Gates Notes - May 22, 2017 Book Riot podcast with mention of Gates's 5 Summer reads Next Week's Guest Jeff O'Neal, executive editor and co-founder of Book Riot Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!  

Anne McElvoy explores the history and possible future of the Union Jack or Union flag in a year which has seen the Brexit Vote. With: Graham Bartram - chief vexillologist at the Flag Institute, who grew up in Scotland, Northern Ireland and West Africa John Bew – professor of history and foreign policy at Kings Afua Hirsch – Sky News correspondent, writing a book called Brit(ish) which will be published next year Ash Sarkar - a senior editor for Novara Media and who hosts an online video series #OMFGSarkar Andrew Rosindell - Conservative MP for Romford and chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Flags and Heraldry Committee With contributions on the design from Jonathan Meades and Amber Butchart.At the Conservative Party Conference Theresa May's speech argued that the establishment must stop sneering at the patriotism of ordinary Britons. With renewed discussions about Scottish independence in the wake of the Brexit vote, what might this mean for the idea of patriotism in Britain - and for the flag which was created in 1606 as ‘the flag of Britain', and which gained the name ‘Union' in 1625.Part of a week-long focus on Free Thinking on the idea of patriotism and why politicians of all stripes are claiming that their parties are the most patriotic.Producer: Eliane Glaser.

In Minute 25 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny, Mike, and Brant go deep into Brian Slade's origins, beginning with his ostensible formative years in Birmingham, the cheeky travelogues of Jonathan Meades, the importance of the legacy of British music hall and its decline and fall in the 1950s, the queer coding and possible stereotyping within music hall, British entertainment in general and queer actors' complicity in it, the history of cross-dressing on the British stage, Lindsay Kemp and his influence on young (and old) Bowie, the importance of David Bowie's half-brother Terry Burns to his formative years, and we have our very first ChallengeBowie segment, where listener Laura Darby Singh takes on Bowie in her specialty skill of… saving apes! Find us on the web at thewholeshebangpodcast.com, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Patreon at wholeshebangpod.

Writer and film-maker Jonathan Meades joined us at the Bookshop to present and discuss *Pedigree Mongrel* (Test Centre), a new album composed of specially-recorded readings from his books *Pompey* (1993), *Museum Without Walls* (2012) and *An Encyclopaedia of Myself* (2014). Combined with the distinctive soundscapes of Mordant Music, *Pedigree Mongrel* is both a unique retrospective of Meades’s fictional and essayistic writings, and a new and significant standalone work.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jonathan Meades, writer, journalist, and film-maker, debates the concept of architectural legacy. Introduction by Hywel Williams, Senior Adviser, Legatum Institute

Writer Jonathan Meades nominates the English artist Edward Burra, who died in 1976, for "great life" status, arguing that he deserves to be better known. Burra painted sailors, drinkers and prostitutes in Toulon; jazz musicians in Harlem; surreal wartime pictures of soldiers in terrifying bird masks; and, in his later years, landscapes in which anthropomorphic and malevolent machines bite chunks out of the countryside. Disabled with rheumatoid arthritis from an early age, Burra barely went to school and so escaped the Edwardian upper class upbringing that would otherwise have been his destiny. At once camp yet apparently celibate, Burra was intensely private and disliked talking about either himself or art - or, as he called it, "fart". Matthew Parris chairs the discussion, and is joined by Burra's biographer Jane Stevenson. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

Listen to two of the great contemporary cultural voices of the day discuss: "Le noyau de toute culture est constitué par sa gastronomie." ("The kernel of every culture is based on its gastronomy") A.A. Gill, Writer and Critic in conversation with Jonathan Meades, Journalist and film-maker. Recorded live at editorial intelligence’s annual ideas festival Names Not Numbers, in association with the Groucho Club.

Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades's fascination with architecture began on a school trip to Marsh Court in Stockbridge, Hampshire - designed by that great architect of English Country Houses Edwin Lutyens. Subsequently, in a broadcasting career which spans 40 years, he has written and performed in more than 50 television shows on a wide range of topographical subjects: from shacks to garden cities, to buildings associated with vertigo; from beer and pigs, to the architecture of Hitler and Stalin. He was also a food critic for 15 years, winning the coveted Glenfiddich Award in 1999, and has written three novels and a memoir: "Encyclopedia of Myself". His latest television series, "Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloody-mindedness", was screened on BBC 4 in February. He now lives in the iconic Corbusier building, Cité Radieuse in Marseille - and his musical choices reflect his adopted country's love of chanson: French singer / songwriter Barbara's "Ma Plus Belle Histoire d'Amour" features, as does Jacques Brel's Mijn Vlakke Land. Film was not only Jonathan Meades's chosen career; his love of cinema also provided him with a rich musical education. Among his musical choices are Hans Werner Henze's soundtrack to the Alain Resnais film Muriel, and The Aquarium, from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals, which Terence Malick used in his ground breaking film Days of Heaven.

Colin Marshall sits down in Marseille, France, specifically in the Le Corbusier-designed Unité d'Habitation, with Jonathan Meades, writer and broadcaster on architecture, culture, food, and a variety of other subjects to do with place. In his latest film, Bunkers, Brutalism, and Bloodymindness, he looks at architectural styles once- and currently maligned. They discuss how much his residence in Marseilles has to do with his residence in the Unité d'Habitation, to which "caprice" brought him not long ago; unapologetic building versus pusillanimous building; the lack of centralized planning that afflicts France, and what kind of built environment it has brought about; what makes Marseille "no longer the city of Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey"; the phases of the Unité, from its rejection by the workers for whom Corbusier intended it onward; the larger reaction to 20th-century social housing in France and Britain, and what it means that those countries have no taste for the sublime; which European borders he crosses and most immediately notices that "someone cares" about the buildings; what you miss by never having seen Portsmouth's Tricorn Centre, which rose in a rebuilt city in a time when "new meant better"; how he finds no place boring, an attitude for which he may have received inadvertent training traveling through England with his salesman father; places as gardens of forking paths, leading to all manner of other things; real places, and the fiction places you by definition invent when you try to describe them; the "persona completely apart" he uses to contrast against the variety of places on display in his films; his ideal of satirizing everything; what went into his upcoming book An Encyclopedia of Myself, beginning with the "lie" of its title; whether he has ever felt fascinated by American places; what the French consider too "difficult" about his un-methodical work; and what hope we should hold out for a future Jonathan Meades film on Buenos Aires.

Colin Marshall sits down for a pint at Nelson's Retreat, a pub on London's Old Street, with Neil Denny, host of Little Atoms, a show about ideas and culture on Resonance FM. They discuss whether beer improves or degrades the quality of ideas discussed; how the show's concept has changed over time, differently involving notions of science, culture, atheism, the Enlightenment, and the left; how he began podcasting, and then had to stand out from the sudden morass of skepticism-themed podcast; the different role of religion in the United States and the United Kingdom, and the difficulty of making any untrue statement about America; what effect the events of July 7, 2005 had on the formation of the show; how he conceives of his interviews as encounters with authors you read at the pub; the early inclusion of Jonathan Meades on the guest list, and how he represents the show's ever-growing interest in place; whether you must polarize to truly gain popularity; the Little Atoms American road trip, and what it taught him about how best to think about America's dually prominent scientific and religious enterprises; the American sense of place and the built environment versus that of England; how he sought out the semi-secret public gardens in the skyscrapers of San Francisco; how both of them changed the way they frame their core interests on their shows, but not the interests themselves; how he feels when he listens to his own early interviews, from back when he labored under the feeling of fraudulence then inherent to working outside the "legitimate media"; guests' welcome yet troubling compliments of, "You actually read my book" or "You really listened to me"; and friends' equally telling questions of, "Can you really talk to somebody for an hour?" 

Gillian Darley and David McKie’s study of Nairn - Ian Nairn: Words in Place – published by Five Leaves, reintroduces to a new generation an architectural critic whose work has influenced writers and critics such as J.G. Ballard, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Jonathan Meades, who once described Nairn as ‘a great poet of the metropolis’. Gillian Darley and David McKie discussed Ian Nairn’s life and work, and Owen Hatherley, author of A New Kind of Bleak and A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain chaired this discussion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr goes in search of ancient landscapes with the writer Robert Macfarlane. With a mix of geology, cartography and natural history, Macfarlane journeys on foot to explore ideas of pilgrimage, trespass and ancient pathways. Jonathan Meades is equally preoccupied with a sense of place, but turns his attention to its architecture and the futility of landmark buildings. Anna Minton argues against the increasing privatisation of public space. And size is no matter to the designer Thomas Heatherwick - from a new London double decker, to a bridge that curls up and a handbag made from zips - he always has the human scale in mind. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Evening:Episode Fifty SevenThis week, swears, Jonathan Meades, salad bowls, Garry Bushell, crash diets, celebrity quotes, Jeff Goldblum, Megan Fox, Nick Knowles, Dirty Dancing and Hollow Man.

In London: City of Disappearances, Iain Sinclair turns away from official versions and approved histories, and with the help of a host of contributors, brings to light the fugitive scraps, faded newspaper cuttings and patterns in the dust. Novelist and psychogeographer Will Self and the outspoken architectural commentator Jonathan Meades discussed and read from the book. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.