Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and filmmaker. His books include three works of fiction - Filthy English, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business - and several anthologies including the recently published Museum Without Walls. His latest book is An Encyclopaedia of Myself. He has written and performed in more than 50 television shows on predominantly topographical subjects such as shacks, garden cities, megastructures, buildings associated with vertigo, beer, pigs and the architecture of Hitler and Stalin. His most recent show was Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry, Some of these are available on The Jonathan Meades Collection DVD. See also the YouTube channel MeadesShrine. He lives in Marseille. Jonathan has been our guest on Little Atoms eight times.
Interview one first broadcast on 3rd March 2006.
Interview two first broadcast on 11th May 2007.
Interview three first broadcast on 31st October 2008.
Interview four first broadcast on 14th December 2013. Also in this show, writer Sarah Ditum shares her love for Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy.
Interview five first broadcast on 21st June 2014.
See also here for the live event with Jonathan Meades and Will Alsop, recorded 19th November 2010 at The Free Word Centre.