I’m a bit hooked on the series Jonathan Meades has been doing on brutalism, even though I can’t really say I enjoy it. It is compelling but almost impossible to make any sense of.

For a show about a particular school of architecture it is very short on hard facts about that architecture or the architects. Examples are shown in almost blip-vert style, never letting you really take in anything. The same few buildings keep getting shown over and over again, usually the same still view, without you being told where they are or anything about them.

This week the show did settle down a bit and actually show Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation in some detail, from several angles. I never realised that it was built on stilts and made me wonder, given recent weather-related events here, if such buildings wouldn’t have been more suited to the Somerset Levels than the cottages and farmhouses.In a way it reminded me a bit of the deck-based house where my granddad used to live. At the time I didn’t realise what a strange concept it was and although the old Danacre deck would probably be held up as a prime example of ‘concrete monstrosity’ everybody there seemed happy enough with it at the time.

Apart from that it was the same flitting from one topic to another with tantalising glimpses of other buildings but no telling of the stories behind them. Infuriating but hypnotic and still available on the iPlayer.