All Episodes of Abroad in Britain

Season 1

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  Severn Heaven

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/29/1990

  Just north of Bewdley in Worcestershire, beside the Severn Valley Railway, is the largest surviving interwars 'plotland' settlement in Britain. This is a village of dwellings built by their owners from improvised materials: old railway carriages, chicken coops, the fuselages of gliders etc. Decried as an instant slum and opposed by planning authorities it is today regarded as a valuable manifestation of working class history.

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  Right is Wrong

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1990

  Meades investigates a new age community beside a Scottish air base, a furniture factory in a Dorset wood, and an experimental school in East Grinstead, all of which are geometrically linked by buildings that shun the orthodoxy of the right angle.

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  House Ahoy

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/12/1990

  Meades investigates unusual houses, houseboats and lifestyles of people on the Solent.

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  Brick and Mortars

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/1990

  Jonathan Meades considers the style of army and military buildings and architectural styles.

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  In Search of Bohemia

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/1990

  There are a surprising number of places in Britain called Bohemia. Even more surprising is the fact that two of them - in Hastings and the New Forest - have connections to the artistic bohemia of such painters as Augustus John, two of whose studios demonstrate how much domestic design would take from this type of building. Features a red Lada that's a mobile tip.

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