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Jools Holland

April 2024

  • Portrait of Jools Holland

    The week in audio: Radio 3’s new schedule; Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat; Strike; Wiser Than Me – review

    Jools Holland’s new classical show typifies Radio 3’s dull relaunch; pleasures elsewhere included Jonny Owen’s mum on Welsh miners in the 80s and the wonderful Julia Louis-Dreyfus

February 2024

  • ‘We need to be bold’ … Jackson at the BBC.

    ‘A James Bond night? Absolutely!’ Radio 3 boss Sam Jackson reveals his big shakeup

    The ex-boss of Classic FM is rebooting the BBC’s venerable home of classical music, with new shows and presenters – including a special slot for ‘perfect fit’ Jools Holland

October 2023

  • ‘I see the greats close up’ … Kylie Minogue on Later … With Jools Holland in 2007.

    How we made
    ‘Mark E Smith said the Fall would only come on if I didn’t play piano’: Jools Holland on making Later …

    ‘I’ve been hosting the show for 31 years. That’s almost half my life. You don’t get that for armed robbery’

February 2023

  • ‘I was playing pub shows and getting £10 a night, thinking, “We don’t need this school business”’: Jools Holland.

    This much I know
    Jools Holland: ‘Put your train-set in your biggest room’

    The pianist, 65, tells Rich Pelley about swerving the army, being invited to leave school, his massive train-set and life-long love of boogie-woogie

November 2022

  • Jools’ 30th Birthday Bash on BBC Two.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Jools Holland celebrates a big birthday with the best in the biz

    Robert Plant and Poppy Ajudha perform at the the ivory-tickler’s bash. Plus: meet the sex-crazed peacocks of Castle Howard. Here’s everything to watch this evening

October 2021

  • Jools Holland sitting at a grand piano, photographed from above

    A broken record: why music TV deserves more than Jools Holland

    In 2021, the 63-year-old is still the nation’s pop gatekeeper. Why won’t broadcasters give viewers what they want, rather than yet another tedious episode of Later…?

May 2021

  • Family album ... Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years & A Lovely Bit of Squirrel.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: celebrate a decade of Robert Popper’s sitcom Friday Night Dinner

    Come for the insight, stay for the behind-the-scenes footage of the late Paul Ritter. Plus: Mary Beard goes inside culture. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2021

  • ‘A canny mix of politics and the personal’ ... Jonas Nay as Martin in Deutschland 89.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: it's all go in espionage drama Deutschland 89

    Martin is approached by a raft of initialed organisations. Plus: a special edition of Gardenders’ World. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2020

  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor performs during the filming for the Graham Norton New Year’s Eve show.

    Stuck at home on New Year's Eve? Here's what to watch on TV

  • Tom Hanks on The Graham Norton Show in 2019

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: how will you celebrate the end of 2020?

September 2020

  • ‘I May Destroy You said “screw you” to our ideas of what TV should be’ ... Charlotte Ritchie.

    Remote controller
    Charlotte Ritchie: 'Watching people eat on TV is absurd'

    The star of Ghosts, Fresh Meat and Call The Midwife on the pomposity of MasterChef and the children’s TV villain who still haunts her

January 2019

  • Girls Aloud.

    ‘You need a ringleader who’s happy to say: shut up Lily Allen' – five ways to make a girl band

    Peter Loraine, who came up with the Spice Girls nicknames, helped create Girls Aloud and managed the Saturdays, talks girl-group chemistry

December 2018

  • Jools Holland.

    Jump the shark
    New Year’s Evil: how Jools Holland’s seasonal lies ruined the annual Hootenanny

    Once it was revealed that the ‘live’ show was in fact a pre-record, the glamour of spending NYE with your favourite musicians lost its appeal

November 2017

  • Always affable ... Jools Holland

    Culture webchats
    Jools Holland webchat – your questions answered on punk, Amy Winehouse and his favourite rapper

    The bandleader and television presenter has tickled ivories with the biggest names in music. He told us which musician he’s most in awe of, what late legend he’d like to spend eternity with and his peculiar fear of dying

September 2017

  • Richard Dormer as DCI Gabriel Markham in Rellik

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Rellik; Liar; The Other One; Static; Tribes, Predators and Me; and more…

    Two masterly thrillers by sibling co-writers battled it out, and a wry comedy about a bigamist’s daughters made for a wild half hour

August 2017

  • East side story … Squeeze in 1978, with Chris Difford in the centre.

    Some Fantastic Place by Chris Difford review – Squeeze v David Cameron

    The co-writer of Up the Junction and other pop classics recounts his career from working-class roots to stardom

July 2017

  • Sir Tom Jones will make his first Proms appearance

    Tom Jones set for Proms debut singing soul to celebrate Stax records

    Singer will join Booker T Jones and Sam Moore on Royal Albert Hall stage for concert led by Jools Holland

April 2017

  • Jools Holland on the set of his show

    The other side
    Later... With Jools Holland: a cockroach in the schedules

    The format is tedious and the host is excruciating, but the BBC’s last remaining live-music showcase ploughs on regardless. It will probably outlive us all

March 2016

  • Jools Holland and Paula Yates meet Dame Edna Everage on The Tube in 1983.

    How we made
    How we made The Tube

    Jools Holland: ‘When Rik Mayall vomited into a camera, one man in Northampton was so appalled he called the police.’

May 2015

  • Squeeze

    How we made
    Squeeze: how we made Up the Junction

    Glenn Tilbrook, singer/songwriter: ‘We shot the video in John Lennon’s kitchen. We’d had quite a few beers by then’
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