All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • September 9, 2009
    • BBC Four

    Architecture critic Meades celebrates Aberdeen, the granite city full of 'brand new' 300-year-old buildings.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • September 16, 2009
    • BBC Four

    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.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • September 23, 2009
    • BBC Four

    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.