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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC Four
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 3
Original Language EN
Creator Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Meades On France (2012)
Created by Jonathan Meades
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Ended Series Status:
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Synopsis
Jonathan Meades scrutinises the 95 per cent of France that Brits drive through and don't notice en route to the 5 per cent that conforms to their expectation
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Miniseries)
3 Episodes E1 Fragments of an Arbitrary Encyclopaedia
Jonathan explains why Lorraine has become the symbolic heart of France and a stronghold of a romantic nationalism expressed by diverse means.
E2 A Biased Anthology of Parisian Peripheries
Jonathan inspects the Parisian palaces of tyrannical colonial dynasties and the village where the Ayatollah Khomeini lived in exile.
E3 Just a Few Debts France Owes to America
Jonathan looks at how the French delude themselves that they are indifferent towards the USA, despite huge evidence of cultural indebtedness.