FRANCIS HANLY

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/08/noise-hendy-story-of-music-goodall-review A review by Adam Mars-Jones of Howard’s book that accompanies the series, The Story Of Music, where he’s rather sniffy about the programmes. He then cites an earlier series I made with Howard saying the thematic approach to music we used better suited television than the historical one taken by the current series. The […]

http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/30/the-joy-of-essex-saw-jonathan-meades-eloquently-reclaim-the-county-3371864/   Metro review by Keith Watson. I unknowingly filmed his house as part of the doc but he seems cool about it.  

http://www.dinglefilmfestival.com/programme/saturday-16th/magical-mystery-tour-revisited/   http://accreditation.artfifa.com/en/component/k2/item/201-beatles_magical_mystery_tour_revisited_the   A couple of festival screenings for Magical Mystery Tour Revisited.  

http://silvermud.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/jeremy-clarkson-on-heroin/ Great blog about The Joy of Essex. For those of you brought up near a bleak but beautiful estuary.

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/the-gramophone-blog/howard-goodalls-the-story-of-music Not a magazine I’m that familiar with and someone who says they don’t watch tv doesn’t get my vote but a good analysis of Howard’s strengths.

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-and-radio/2013/01/escape-orange-county Brilliantly written review by Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman, and I’m not just saying that because she likes the programme. It’s just so well crafted. ‘Better five minutes of Meades than five hours of Waldemar Januszczak’.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/television/8839611/old-school-joy/   Review of The Story of Music describing the approach as ‘old school’ – in a positive way even though the approach we took was deliberately against the grain and could be described as ‘new school’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9836598/Nigel-Farndale-on-TV-Jonathan-Meades-the-Joy-of-Essex-and-Derek.html I love this line from the review. Re-commissioning editors, Jonathan doesn’t just bite the hand that feeds him, he slow roasts it. ‘There were some quirky camera angles and croppings, as well as some seemingly random visual images and clips of music, and all of these reminded you of what it is that is […]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/04/howard-goodalls-story-of-music?CMP=twt_fd   Sam Woolaston of part 2 of Howard’s Story of Music.  

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-02-02/that-week-on-tv-the-joy-of-essex-bbc4-the-story-of-music-bbc2 A first for me, two programmes reviewed in the same piece and both excellent. Waiting for the backlash.