Jonathan Meades

Actor · born 21 January 1947 · Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Jonathan Turner Meades is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food. His work spans journalism, fiction, essays, memoir and over fifty highly idiosyncratic television films, and has been described as "brainy, scabrous, mischievous", "iconoclastic" and possessed of "a polymathic breadth of knowledge and truly caustic wit".

Where to start: Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016).