Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter

2009•58m

Documentary

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

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BBC Scotland

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Ended

First Aired

November 9, 2009

Last Aired

November 23, 2009

Created By

Jonathan Meades

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Episode 1

Air date: 2009-11-09

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

Episode 2

Air date: 2009-11-16

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

Air date: 2009-11-23

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.