• Jonathan Meades: ‘If I’d been in England, I’d be dead’

    Jonathan Meades: ‘If I’d been in England, I’d be dead’
    The critic and author, recovering from heart surgery in France, discusses architecture, Jeremy Hunt and life in Marseille while cooking dishes from his new book of recipes, A Plagiarist in the KitchenJonathan Meades has spent an adult lifetime on unlikely pilgrimages of one kind or another, partly to test his contention that “there is no such thing as a boring place”. For the BBC he has gone in search of the architectural essence of Birmingham, and the discrete joys of Essex; he has

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