Jonathan Glancey – Petworth Festival

Known to many as the former architecture and design correspondent of The Guardian and Independent newspapers, Jonathan Glancey’s latest oeuvre celebrates the best journeys that ordinary passengers could take by rail, road, sea and air throughout the twentieth century.

What was it really like to take the LNER’s Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King’s Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from Manhattan to Chicago on board the New York Central’s 20th Century Limited or to dine and sleep aboard the Graf Zeppelin? In the course of The Journey Matters, Jonathan Glancey travels from the early 1930s to the turn of the century on some of what he considers to be the most truly glamorous and romantic trips he has ever dreamed of or made in real life.

Jonathan Glancey is also a steam locomotive enthusiast and pilot. A frequent broadcaster, his books include Concorde, Harrier, Giants of Steam, the bestselling Spitfire: The Biography, and The Train: An Illustrated History.