FRANCIS HANLY

http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/jonathan-meades-joy-essex-bbc-four   Excellent review by the excellent Adam Sweeting  

http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/television/8834901/ordinary-people-2/ A review of The Joy Of Essex in the Spectator. Not a publication I usually read but for a brief while it has become a dear favourite of mine.  

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-viewing–jonathan-meades-the-joy-of-essex-bbc4-locomotion-dan-snows-history-of-railways-bbc2-8471752.html   The excellent Tom Sutcliffe on The Joy Of Essex.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/jan/30/the-mary-berry-story   Two programmes reviewed – one opportunistic and instantly forgettable, the other ‘Jonathan Meades: The Joy Of Essex’

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-joy-of-essex-in-praise-of-muchmaligned-ancient-county-8467819.html An article by Jonathan Meades describing his experience of Essex -a major revision of a maligned and caricatured county.    

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9827862/Howard-Goodalls-Story-of-Music-BBC-Two-review.html   A review of Howard’s first programme in the Story Of Music Series. Very perceptive but I would say that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9815926/Howard-Goodalls-way-is-music-to-my-ears.html BBC 2 9.30pm Saturday 26th January Howard Goodall’s radical re-working of music history – passionate, lucid and above all fascinating. Instead of wandering around dead composers houses we decided to shoot the whole thing in a studio at Twickenham (the last production to be filmed there incidentally). A risky route to go down but […]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/23/essex-only-way-is-up Interesting article by Tim Burrows on how Essex became a national joke and how its image is being slowly redeemed. References The Joy of Essex, Jonathan Meades’s take on the unknown side of one England’s most mysterious counties. Filmed and Directed by Francis Hanly.