Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades's books include Filthy English, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business. He has written and performed in some fifty television shows on such subjects as the utopian avoidance of right angles, totalitarian architecture, the Hanseatic cities, the beauty of Hebridean dereliction, the allure of vertigo. His latest series, Off Kilter, was called "a masterpiece" by Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph. He has been described as having "invented a genre of his own", as "the most erudite broadcaster of the age", as "a charlatan" and as "a heavily sedated Geoffrey Howe".