Jonathan Meades

For the footballer, see Jonathan Meades (footballer).

Jonathan Meades
Meades reading at the grave of Laurence Sterne, Coxwold, 2012
Born
Jonathan Turner Meades

(1947-01-21) 21 January 1947 (age 77)
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Education
Alma materRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Critic
  • Author
  • TV film-maker & performer
  • Essayist
  • Photographer
Spouses
Sally Brown
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(1980⁠–⁠1986)​
Frances Bentley
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(m. 1988; div. 1997)​
Colette Forder
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(m. 2003)​
[1]
Children4 daughters
Website

Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947)[1] is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food.[2] His work spans journalism, fiction, essays, memoir and over fifty highly idiosyncratic television films,[3][4][5] and has been described as "brainy, scabrous, mischievous",[6] "iconoclastic",[7] and possessed of "a polymathic breadth of knowledge and truly caustic wit".[8]

His latest book, an anthology of uncollected writing from 1988 to 2020 titled Pedro and Ricky Come Again, was published by Unbound in March 2021 and is the sequel to Peter Knows What Dick Likes.[9] His most recent film, Franco Building with Jonathan Meades, aired on BBC Four in August 2019 and is the fourth instalment in a series on the architectural legacy of 20th-century European dictators.[10][5]

He has described himself as a "cardinal of atheism"[11] and is both an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society[12][13] and a Patron of Humanists UK.[14]

  1. ^ a b "Jonathan Meades". Who's Who. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
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  5. ^ a b "Home". Jonathan Meades official website. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Times Magnetic North was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  8. ^ Sutcliffe, Jamie (March 2015). "Interview with Jonathan Meades". The White Review. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Pedro was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference BBC Franco was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Independent 2002 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ "Jonathan Meades". National Secular Society. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  13. ^ "Honorary Associates". secularism.org.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Jonathan Meades". Humanists UK. Archived from the original on 8 May 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2018.