{"id":1719,"date":"2008-02-26T08:17:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T08:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2008-02-26T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T08:30:03","slug":"a-cultural-quickie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/a-cultural-quickie\/","title":{"rendered":"A cultural quickie"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t seen these already, and are based in the UK, watch today via the really rather fun BBC iPlayer:<\/p>\n

Jonathan Meades: Magnetic North<\/a> – yet another top-notch contribution from the almost always fascinating Meades, this time looking at the shared culture of northern Europe. So good I can ignore his uncanny resemblance to my dear father. (Unfortunate fellow, my dad – HIS father looked just like Gregory Peck…)<\/p>\n

If you aren’t aware of Meades, have a gander at his rather good take on Nazi architecture<\/a> as well, and I can’t recommend his superb programme on Surrealism highly enough:<\/p>\n

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Part 2<\/a>, Part 3<\/a>, Part 4<\/a>, Part 5<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Also worth a gander via iPlayer is The Art of Spain: The Mystical North<\/a> – the third (?) part of this really rather fun series from Andrew Graham-Dixon, not someone I’ve previously taken to. He’s certainly convinced me that Spanish art is well worth paying attention to, however – I was always more of a French\/German man myself.<\/p>\n

More (possibly) later – busy this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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