Music Composer and Arranger

Music for TV Commercials

Composer for Film, TV & Ads

A creative, highly versatile composer and arranger, writing in a wide variety of genres for large orchestras to small bands. Paul composes music for commercials, film and television programmes - from quirky comedy (Blandings) to children's (Old Jack's Boat) to documentaries (Children of The Holocaust).

Music composer for Film and TV

Music composed for Film and TV

From TV to Indie Features

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.

Paul Honey - music composer and arranger

Latest News

Composing in the time of Coronavirus

As the country slowly comes out of lockdown, it has been important to keep busy and creative through these strange times. The acclaimed series 'A House Through Time' has returned to BBC2 for its 3rd series. This time, David Olusoga investigates the residents of a house in the Redcliffe area of Bristol .... More »
The Atom: A Love Affair

Following the successful premiere of Vicki Lesley’s feature documentary 'The Atom: A Love Affair' at the Leeds International Film Festival last year, the film was due for general release in May. With cinemas closed that wasn’t possible so the film is now available .... More »
Amsterdam Lockdown

A commission for the Delta Saxophone Quartet was also completed right in the middle of lockdown. As part of the Arts Council England funded Project Flicks, the composition accompanies footage filmed by my eldest son Alex, who lives and works in Amsterdam .... More »
Poignant endings, exciting new beginnings

As 2020 gets under way, the never ending quest for new opportunities continues and I’m really looking forward to working on a few works for the concert platform. Five Elements, a work for cello and choir with words by the poet Gregory Warren Wilson will be recorded by the cellist Justin Pearson .... More »
Atoms and Andrew Marr

2017 kicks of with a busy few months. In January, Paul completed the score to the forthcoming documentary Andrew Marr: My Brain and Me. He's started work on the feature documentary The Atom: A Love Affair and he's working on a new series of the BAFTA winning Old Jack’s Boat: Rockpool Tales .... More »
More BAFTA nominations and wins and 'The Miracle'

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 »
Earth’s Wildest Waters: The Big Fish comes to BBC2

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 »
Bernard Cribbins returns as Old Jack in a brand new CBeebies series

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 »
Genius of the Ancient World

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 »
Summer's Gift

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 »
BAFTA Hat-Trick

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 Busy Summer

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 »
Children Of The Holocaust

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 »
Blandings returns to BBC1

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 »
Old Jack's Boat Returns on Christmas Day

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 »
Blandings Returns to BBC1

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 »
All at Sea

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 »
Old Jack's Boat - music written by Paul Honey

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 »
Paul Honey creates music for new BBC1 Blandings

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 »
Surprise Surprise returns with music by Paul Honey

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 »
A host of stars on board with new BBC children's show

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 »
Stellar cast joins "The Actress"

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 »
New BBC comedy series with music by Paul Honey

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 »
The Games - New tracks released by MadeUpMusic.

Music for the 2012 Olympiad and beyond! Featuring tracks by Paul and guitarist Arthur Dick...Listen to the album »