This was an unvarnished portrait of a nation scrubbed clean of its lipstick, powder and paint. In the first of three films dissecting the nation that has become “his second country”, Meades turned his ...

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 ...

Jonathan explains why Lorraine has become the symbolic heart of France and a stronghold of a romantic nationalism expressed by diverse means. Jonathan looks at how the French delude themselves that ...