TV season
1990-10-29
Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain.
Episode 1
1990-10-29
Just north of Bewdley in Worcestershire, beside the Severn Valley Railway, is the largest surviving interwars 'plotland' settlement in Britain. This is a village of dwellings built by their owners from improvised materials: old railway carriages, chicken coops, the fuselages of gliders etc. Decried as an instant slum and opposed by planning authorities it is today regarded as a valuable manifestation of working class history.
Episode 2
1990-11-05
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.
Episode 3
1990-11-12
Meades investigates unusual houses, houseboats and lifestyles of people on the Solent.
Episode 4
1990-11-26
Jonathan Meades considers the style of army and military buildings and architectural styles.
Episode 5
1990-12-03
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.
