David Jeffcock

David Jeffcock (born in London in September 1957) is an award-winning British television documentary writer, director and producer. Beginning as a studio director in live television in 1982, he has worked on more than a hundred programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. He has been the writer, director, producer, series or executive producer of programmes and series about art, architecture, literature, theatre, poetry, cinema, animation, ballet, opera, classical music, popular music, jazz, journalism, advertising, Roman, European, Middle Eastern, Soviet and British history, biography, natural history, science and wine. His films have contained drama, reconstruction and music and dance performance.
Jeffcock is best known for his work with the composer/presenter Howard Goodall, with whom he produced and directed four series about music; Sounds of the Sixties and Sounds of The Seventies, which he originated; and two episodes of Rock Family Trees. David Herman, writing in a television review for Prospect in 2004 remarked that the series Jeffcock has made with Goodall and their colleagues ‘constitutes an important body of work, one of the landmarks of British arts television.’
He has also worked with presenters Alan Bennett, Julian Clary, Dan Cruickshank, Alan Davies, Stephen Fry, John Eliot Gardiner, Ian Hislop, Boris Johnson, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Suzy Klein, Barry Norman, Antonio Pappano, Tony Robinson and Alan Titchmarsh, as well as making many non-presenter-led films.
Series he has worked on have won BAFTA, RTS Education, Czech Crystal, Learning On Screen and Peabody Awards and have been nominated for BAFTA, RTS, Grierson and Emmy Awards, He has written for The Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Mail on Sunday, Literary Review, and Sight & Sound.
Credits include:
PAPPANO’S CLASSICAL VOICES
Presented by Sir Antonio Pappano.
Series producer.
BBC 4, 2015.
RULE BRITANNIA! MUSIC, MISCHIEF & MORALS IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Presented by Suzy Klein.
Series producer/director Episode One.
BBC 4, 2014.
DARCEY’S BALLERINA HEROINES
Presented by Darcey Bussell.
Writer.
BBC 2, 2014.

BACH - A PASSIONATE LIFE
Presented by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Producer/co-Director.
BBC 2, 2013.

CZECH CRYSTAL FOR BEST MUSIC OR DANCE DOCUMENTARY - GOLDEN PRAGUE INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL
THE SOUND & THE FURY
Modern music, based on The Rest is Noise, by Alex Ross.
Edit producer Episode 2.
BBC 4, 2013.
HOWARD GOODALL’S STORY OF MUSIC
Series producer.
BBC 2, 2013.
BARENBOIM ON BEETHOVEN
Script associate.
BBC 2, 2012.
THE COUNTRY HOUSE REVEALED
with Dan Cruickshank.
Easton Neston by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Producer/director Episode 3.
BBC 4, 2011.
THE SEASONS
with Alan Titchmarsh.
Series producer.
ITV1, 2010.

AFTER ROME: HOLY WAR & CONQUEST
Written & Presented by Boris Johnson.
Christian-Muslim relations & The Crusades.
Series Producer/co-director.
BBC 2, 2009.

HOW MUSIC WORKS
Howard Goodall explores melody, rhythm, harmony, bass
Series Producer/co-director
Channel 4, 2007

BORIS JOHNSON & THE DREAM OF ROME
Comparing and contrasting the Roman Empire and the EU.
Series Producer/co-director.
BBC 2, 2006.

THE SPECTATOR AFFAIR
The Spectator in the news.
Writer/director.
BBC 2, 2005
HOWARD GOODALL’S 20th CENTURY GREATS
The century’s most influential popular composers.
Series Producer/co-director.
Channel 4, 2004.
WINNER, RTS EDUCATIONAL AWARD, BEST SECONDARY ARTS PROGRAMME.
NOMINATED FOR BAFTA AWARD (HUW WHELDON SPECIALIST FACTUAL)
THE HIGHEST BIDDER
The world’s most expensive objects sold at auction.
Portrait of Dr Gachet; Alice In Wonderland mss; Thomas Jefferson ‘1787’ wine.
Writer/producer/director.
BBC 2, 2003.
THE MEN FROM THE AGENCY
David Puttnam, Alan Parker, Charles Saatchi and adland.
Executive producer.
BBC 4, 2003.
JOHN ADAMS - AMERICAN CLASSIC
America’s most performed living composer.
Writer/director.
Channel 4, 2002.
SHORTLISTED FOR A GRIERSON AWARD
HOWARD GOODALL’S GREAT DATES
Key dates in classical music.
Series producer/co-director.
Channel 4, 2002.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE F-WORD
Writer/director/producer.
Channel 4, 2000.
HOWARD GOODALL’S BIG BANGS
Key moments in classical music history .
Director, Notation and Recorded Sound.
Channel 4, 2000.

SERIES WINNER OF BAFTA (HUW WHELDON) AND PEABODY AWARDS FOR BEST SPECIALIST DOCUMENTARY.
“NOTATION” EPISODE NOMINATED FOR INTERNATIONAL EMMY, RTS AND GRIERSON AWARDS.
STAGESTRUCK
Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century.
Producer/director.
Channel 4, 1999.
4 GOES TO GLYNDEBOURNE
Live presentation producer, Manon Lescaut, Le Comte Ory.
Channel 4, 1997.

FALLEN ANGELS
Interval film for Gounod’s Faust with Katrin Cartlidge.
Producer/director.
Channel 4, 1996.
ROCK FAMILY TREES
Writer/director/producer New York Punk; the British R&B Boom.
BBC 2, 1995.

LAUGHTER & LOATHING
Ian Hislop on Juvenal, played by Stephen Fry.
Producer/director.
BBC 2, 1994.

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
The story of a Socialist Realist painting.
Producer/Director.
BBC 2, 1993.

A NIGHT IN WITH ALAN BENNETT
A personal view of television.
Producer/director.
BBC 2, 1992.
SOUNDS OF THE SEVENTIES
Popular music archive performance.
Originator/Series producer.
BBC 2, 1991.
SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES
Popular music archive performance.
Originator/Producer.
BBC 2, 1990.
STUDIO DIRECTOR Film 83, Film 84, Film 85.
Live studio director, BBC North West, 1982.
Network and Promotions director, Presentation, London, 1982.

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