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Ultramarathon (working) Mom Meet Karen Meades, runner extraordinaire.
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In the final episode of Jonathan Meades on France BBC4, 9pm, he delivered a treatise on the country's obsession with America.
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I'm not sure why Meades insists on looking like an ageing roué from Reservoir Dogs by wearing a black suit, white shirt, black tie and Ray-Bans for most of the programme – dark glasses don't exactly improve eye contact with the viewer and it all feels a bit deliberately try-hard and wacky – but I guess every presenter is entitled to their shtick.
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We started with V for valise and an accompanying shot of an old suitcase before cutting to the Algerian war of 1954-62 and Meades dead-panning that it was this threat of violence that had lured him to France as a 15-year-old.
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And if Meades's point was that ideas of identity are often incoherent, transitory and contradictory, then his film was the ideal format.
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On a good night for minimalist factual programming, one man and a camera were also out and about in Jonathan Meades on France BBC4.
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We'll go through all the greats, from Apicius and Acton through Glasse and Grigson, via Liebing, Trillin, Davidson, David, Fisher, Meades and Slater.
Eating Your Words Tom Parker-Bowles 2010
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Jonathan Meades is a writer and broadcaster, and an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.
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Jonathan Meades had also used her voice for one of his BBC films so we knew she had a formidable character.
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Tics aside, I can forgive a lot in any programme about France that doesn't resort to familiar tropes, though much as I came to enjoy my hour in Meades' company – not least for the surreal, quasi-subliminal images that flashed on to the screen from time to time for no very good reason – I wasn't entirely sure I really understood what it was he did want to say about France.
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