Jonathan Meades: The Joy Of EssexApril 3, 2017

Jonathan Meades is unleashed on the county of Essex. Contrary to its caricature as a bling-filled land of breast-enhanced footballer's wives and self-made millionaires, Meades argues that this is a county that defies definition - at once the home of picturesque villages, pre-war modernism and 19th-century social experiments.

Jonathan Meades: The Joy Of Essex was broadcast on BBC4 at Thursday 29 November 2018, 01:00. This episode was initially placed on Tuesday 4 April 2017.