From Insurance to Washing Machines
Paul Honey is a highly versatile composer, arranger and orchestrator with a wealth of experience. Having worked for over 25 years as a writer, performer and producer in a variety of genres, he is able to deliver work, both original or pastiche, that is sympathetic to the demands of the advertising campaign.
As well as composing for internationally well-known television programmes, Paul has also composed music for independent movies. He has also composed extensively for production music libraries.
As 2015 draws to a close, Old Jack's Boat and All At Sea garnered further nominations at the Children's BAFTA awards, with yet another win for Old Jack's Boat. And Paul is composing the music for the forthcoming documentary series 'The Miracle' .... More »
Eight amateur anglers travel the globe to face some of the most dramatic fishing locations in the world. The programme is fronted by Ben Fogle and angling expert Matt Hayes and premieres at 8pm on BBC2 on Sunday 11th October. Music score by Paul Honey .... More »
Old Jack’s Boat: Rockpool Tales has Old Jack recalling adventures from his childhood with a mix of live action and animation to help bring the tales to life. Music score by Paul Honey .... More »
Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy - Buddha, Socrates and Confucius. Original music for the series from Paul Honey .... More »
Take a look at the trailer from Millhouse Films, written and directed by David Whitney, starring Ian McKee and Naomi Radcliffe. Music score by Paul Honey .... More »
The year seems to have flown by already and three of the productions that Paul worked on last year received BAFTA nominations; All At Sea, Children of the Holocaust and Old Jack's Boat.... More »
A lot has been going on in the past few months. Paul completed the score for Children Of The Holocaust and the programme has aired on BBC2 to great acclaim, both from ordinary viewers and Holocaust Survivor associations... More »
Paul is currently working on the music for a forthcoming series in which Jewish men and women give first hand accounts of their lives as children in Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's... More »
The second series of the comedy drama, adapted from the stories by PG Wodehouse will be broadcast from the 16th of February for 7 weeks. Starring Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Jack Farthing and Tim Vine, the score was recorded in January at Air Edel Studios in Central London... More »
In this special episode, written by Russell T Davies, Jack (Bernard Cribbins) tells the story of how he goes on a quest to find 3 special gifts that turn out to have a huge significance for his life. More »
Scoring is now underway on the second series of Blandings. The seven episodes will be aired early in the New Year and stars Timothy Spall as Clarence, Jennifer Saunders as Connie, and Jack Farthing as Freddie. More »
Paul has just commenced working on the original music for 'All At Sea' a comedy drama that follows the chaotic life of a family who relocate from London to Scarborough and open a Bed and Breakfast. More »
Bernard Cribbins marks his return to children's television in a brand new series for CBeebies, Old Jack's Boat. The music was written by Paul and a large part was recorded by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at their studio at MediaCityUK in Salford. The programme airs from Monday, January 21 at 5.40pm on the CBeebies channel. More »
Blandings comes to BBC1 on Sunday at 6.30 pm. Based on the Blandings stories by P.G. Wodehouse, the series features an all star cast (Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Mark Williams and David Walliams), a very large pig called The Empress and music by Paul Honey. Read more »
The classic entertainment show, Surprise Surprise, is to return to ITV this Sunday (21st October) with theme music and other incidental music specially composed by Paul Honey and his co-writer, Arthur Dick. Read more »
Star of both stage and screen, Bernard Cribbins (Fawlty Towers, Doctor Who, Jackanory) returns to television next year as Old Jack in Old Jack's Boat, a 25-part CBeebies series. Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies has penned two episodes of the show - the first time he has written for pre-schoolers and the score will be composed by Paul. Read more »
Set in a cinema in the present day, The Actress tells the story of Mable (Sadie Frost - Bram Stoker's Dracula, Love Honor and Obey), a grand old star of the big screen in the final stages of life, who relives her life on an emotive journey spanning her illustrious and glamorous career... Read more »
Paul will be composing the score for Blandings, a new comedy series based on the celebrated stories by PG Wodehouse, hailed as one of the greatest comic writers in the English language... Read more »
Music for the 2012 Olympiad and beyond! Featuring tracks by Paul and guitarist Arthur Dick...Listen to the album »
Paul Honey
Composer & Arranger
