Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter
Miniseries
Created by: Jonathan Meades
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Season aired: 2009-11-09
Overview
Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered lists of towns only known from football coupons
Episodes · 3
Episode 1
Architecture critic Meades celebrates Aberdeen, the granite city full of 'brand new' 300-year-old buildings.
Episode 2
Architecture critic Jonathan Meades continues his quixotic tour of Scotland. Genealogy, or 'ancestral tribalism', gets Meades's goat as he travels from Stirling to the isle of Lewis and Harris, a strange, sometimes rusty paradise. Here he discovers serenity, Calvinism and peat bog bodies.
Episode 3
Architecture critic Jonathan Meades concludes his quixotic tour of Scotland in Fife. Driving around a number of lower league football towns, he celebrates an oil refinery, takes potshots at overpaid footballers and extols the virtues of Irn Bru as a tanning agent.
