Father To The Man
BBC2 May 9 19.00
Meades revisits the places his father took him to as a child in the hope that they may shed some light on the very obsession they fomented. The father sold biscuits, fished fanatically, shot anything that moved. The son did none of these. But he came to love the places where these disparate activities took place - the Hampshire Avon’s watermeadows and the New Forest’s heaths, the villages and towns of south Wiltshire and north Dorset. He learned to distinguish clunch and stockbroker’s Tudor, developed a taste for random exploration and shacklands, was thrilled by the refineries and cranescapes of Southampton Water. Nostalgic? Certainly. And literally too - in that it evinces a longing for a lost home. Sentimental? Hardly.
Director: Tim Niel
Producer:
MARTHA WAILES
Series Producer:
ALLAN CAMPBELL
Directors:
TIM NIEL
COLIN MURRAY
FRANCIS HANLY
ROBERT PAYTON
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