- Blue Firth
- 3 days ago
- 4 min read
Searching For Bohemia By Blue Firth, founder of Dohm Ceramics
By God, she’s done it again. Blue Firth, excellent contributor to Tat London, has a knack for bringing to the surface things that should be so firmly under my nose that I always feel faintly embarrassed not to have known them already, and yet entirely grateful for the introduction. After her essential primer on the work of Lucinda Lambton, she has now made the imperative connection to one of the greatest television presenters of all time, Jonathan Meades.
I shan’t go too deeply into it, as Blue has already done a heartening job of getting us all excited for this next step in our art history education, but it is safe to say we need Jonathan Meades back on television. And if no producer is prepared to take the risk, I would happily invest in him starting a podcast. Whether it is a child falling over in the background two minutes in, Meades brusquely shoving a dog aside at the thirteen-minute mark, or perhaps my favourite affectation of all, his plain refusal to acknowledge anyone else in the episode, I find myself warmly won over by his acerbic charm. If any readership is likely to agree, it is this one.
So thank you to Blue for the introduction. If you are in the market to feel thoroughly stupid while also being utterly delighted by language and by the sheer breadth of his knowledge, I suggest you begin immediately with Firth’s recommendation.
Searching for Bohemia, By Blue Firth
I am still in a fog, the post new year blur. Memes and Instagram stories relaying that it’s still deep winter and we weren’t made to “get back to it” on January the fifth. What can be done in the dark time the lurks between new Traitors and The Night Manager episodes? Well, I have a suggestion. Something that may curtail the urge to watch Amandaland for the third time. The suggestion high-brow enough to test the little grey cells, but irreverent enough to still feel somewhat festive. Why not let Mr Jonathan Meades be the first-footer this January?
