2009 • 3 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1 • Nov 09, 2009
Architecture critic Meades celebrates Aberdeen, the granite city full of 'brand new' 300-year-old buildings.
Episode 2 • Nov 16, 2009
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 • Nov 23, 2009
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.