Paul Honey
I worked with Paul recently on a BBC/BFI 90 documentary. And what a pleasure it was. Paul was full of ideas and easy to work with. [He] didn’t just understand what the scene was about, he understood what it was really about.
- Chris Durlacher. Director - The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden.
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After studying music at Southampton University, Paul initially embarked on a career as a pianist and keyboard player, performing all over the UK, Europe, North America, Japan and Australia.
However, as time passed, his interest in composition came more and more to the fore and Paul now works exclusively as a composer primarily for TV and Film.
Credits include award winning programmes such as A House Through Time (BBC) and the double BAFTA-winning Old Jack’s Boat . He has composed music for factual and natural history documentaries such as the BBC2’s Andrew Marr: My Brain and Me and Discovery’s Dogs: The Untold Story.
Further credits include the BAFTA nominated animation series Children Of The Holocaust, Spike Milligan's Badjelly The Witch and the television adaptation of Blandings starring Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders.
A prolific composer of production music, Paul's work has been heard on a wide variety of advertising campaigns (Mazda, Pampers, Bertolli, Reserved), TV productions (A History of Scottish Art, Queen Victoria’s Children, The Somme 1916), and trailers (Ch4’s The Romanians Are Coming and the BBC1 drama Roadkill).
Recent commissions include David Olusoga's BBC feature doc The People's Piazza, series 5 of Molly and Mack (BBC Children's) and a forthcoming Blast! Films series for Channel 4 (2023).
Concert Works
Works for the concert platform include 'Five Elements': a setting of poems by the poet Gregory Warren Wilson for solo Cello and Choir, 'Amsterdam Lockdown', commissioned at the beginning of the pandemic by the Delta Saxophone Quartet, and 'Toss The Feathers': a collection of arrangements for Soloists and Chamber Orchestra of traditional Irish tunes that premiered at The Church of St Martin in The Fields in central London.
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Paul Honey's CV
View our composer's list of TV and film credits here.
Back To The Wild (2022) | Blast Films | |
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The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden (2022) | Uplands Television |
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Scrapyard Millionaires (2022) | Discovery |
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A House Through Time series 4 (2021) | Twenty Twenty |
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Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War? (2021) | Avalon |
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Secrets of The Whales (Score orchestration) (4x60) 2021 | Nat Geo |
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A House Through Time | BBC Two (2018-) | Series 1, 2 and 3 - View project | Twenty Twenty Productions | Produced by Mary Crisp |
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Celebrity Painting Challenge | BBC One (2019) - View project | BBC | Produced by Louisa Gray |
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The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts | BBC Two (2018) - View project | Lion Television | Producer Jeremy Daldry |
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Alone At Home (2018) | 6x60 - View project | Electric Ray | Produced by Paul Bithrey |
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My Wonderful Life (2018) | 3x60 - View project | Chalkboard TV | Produced by Warwick Banks |
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Child Genius | Channel 4 (2018) - View project | Wall To Wall Television | Produced by Paul Bithrey |
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Andrew Marr: My Brain and Me | BBC Two (2017) | 1x60 - View project | Icon Films| Produced and directed by Liz Allen |
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The Coastal Path | BBC Two (2016) | BBC Two | Produced by Jo Horsey |
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Dogs: The Untold Story | Discovery Channel (2016) | 5x60 - View project | Plimsoll Productions |
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Earth's Wildest Waters: The Big Fish | BBC Two | 6x60 (2016) - View project | BBC Studios | Produced by Sam Beddoes |
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Genius of The Ancient World | BBC Four (2016) | 3x60 - View project | BBC Four | Produced by Rob Cowling |
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Children of The Holocaust | BBC Four (2016) - View project | Fettle Animation | Produced by Kath Shackleton |
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Molly and Mack series 5 (2022, forthcoming) | BBC |
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Garden Tales (2021) | True To Nature |
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Molly and Mack | CBeebies (2018-) - View project | BBC Childrens | Produced by Jane Baxter |
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Rockpool Tales series 2 (2017) - View project | BBC | Produced by Ellen Evans |
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Old Jack’s Boat special (2014) ***BAFTA-winning*** - View project | CBeebies/BBC 1 | Produced by Paul Suttleworth |
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All At Sea Series 2 (2014) [BAFTA nominated) - View project | BBC |
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All At Sea series 1 (2013) [BAFTA nominated] - View project | BBC | Produced by Juliet Charlesworth |
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Old Jack’s Boat Series 2 (2014) ***BAFTA-winning*** | BBC | Produced by Dominic MacDonald |
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Old Jack’s Boat series I (2013) | BBC In-house Productions | Produced by Dominic MacDonald. |
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Life Stories (2012) | Red Productions | Executive Producer Nicola Shindler |
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Brum | Ragdoll Productions | Series Producer: Chris Wood |
The Atom: A Love Affair (2020) - View project | Tenner Films | |
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Blandings series 1 and 2 (2014) | 13x30 - View project | Mammoth Screen | Produced by Spencer Campbell (s1), Matthew Mulot (s2) |
Summer’s Gift (2015) | Short film Directed by David Whitney | |
Dotty (2013) | Short filming starring Sadie Frost and Rudy Law Directed by Ben Charles Edwards | |
The Actress (2012) | Short film starring Sadie Frost and Sally Phillips. | |
Chopsticks starring Ron Moody (2001) | Maverick Productions Director: John MacInnes |
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