Jonathan Meades :: Birmingham (1/3)

[@fdsdh1]

best start to a documentary ive seen

[@ajs41]

1998 was a interesting time in B'ham. The year that the world's most important leaders met in the tea-room of the botanical gardens. (I'm being slightly tongue in cheek there of course).

[@anonUK]

I live on the Irony Curtain! Also, Liverpool has irony despite being on the blunt Northern side. Time to redraw the line- say from Preston to Nottingham to Lowestoft.

[@thewaythingsare8158]

very addictive these

[@richardbrown1189]

Nice cameo appearance by Malcolm Stent!

[@deepindercheema4917]

Marsh Court! ( G Robertson) That was a Lutyens built by a self made city man who invented an Investment system. It was built in chalk, a rare building material and a subject of a BBC programme 15 years after this!

[@ST91111]

i am so proud to be from birmingham

[@BuzbyWuzby]

The BBC, and indeed Jonathan Meades himself, don't make programmes like this anymore

[@joehiggs100]

Nice mention of Geoffrey Robinson.

[@heyupmeduck]

Our cities are built for the car, not for people. Meades tells us the truth about ourselves - good, bad or ugly.

[@AlecLathambeer]

Jonathan Meades reveals the Irony Curtain

[@Bullhassocks]

Meades leads!

[@LambChowder1]

all of his programs comes down to him blaming suburbia for something

[@electricrussell]

Love fat '90's Meades! 21st century old Meades just isn't as good.

[@PoliticalWeekly]

well, he's regained some of it. Or at least loved to where big clothes

[@zootius]

LOL at 0:45 - You won't be seeing something like that in anything made today!

[@thechosenwon6762]

Motor Town not anymore

[@sminkycorp]

Irony curtain rofl. IT ACTUALLY EXISTS

[@usernamealredytaken]

Shit on the Villa?

[@fdsdh1]

exclusively English suburbia, then again who can blame him, the cheap bits of wood stuck to the front of houses made to look like old beams, the dodgy asbestos sheds and the poorly painted pebbledash.

[@isafetysalzburg3127]

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[@simonlloyd7557]

Amazing to think that Brum was home to some of the most beautiful Victorian architecture once upon a time, and it even had lots of white people too.

[@jamescurran1375]

Lol who cares