“Even in the canon of his 90-minute thinkpieces, this was something else: a screed delivered by a stand-up who has thought deeply and widely about social history.”

Rich Hall's Working For The American Dream

Rich Hall’s Working for the American Dream, BBC4

“Rich Hall’s Working for the American Dream was less a documentary, more a sardonic 90-minute thesis about how the dream perished that had Hall looking quietly irritated in various US locations. It was long, but immersive.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“Even in the canon of his 90-minute thinkpieces, this was something else: a screed delivered by a stand-up who has thought deeply and widely about social history.”
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph

“He may cover the first couple of centuries quite speedily. But then he begins to meander, and I mean that in the best possible way. And he gets waylaid, mainly by his own laconic wit, but also by the need to divulge some not entirely important, but nevertheless fascinating, trivia.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“Nothing Rich said was at all original. Quite a bit of it had been said by Karl Marx before it had even happened. On the plus side, Rich said it in an hour and a bit and was amusing whereas Marx wrote three of the thickest, dullest books in human history.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“If there was a point to Working For The American Dream, I certainly missed it. Comedian Rich Hall presented this 90-minute gallop through U.S. economic history, intercut with lectures from academics and visits to museums. But he did with in an endlessly sardonic style, with much flippancy and rather less wit.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

Barry Davies: The Man, the Voice, the Legend, BBC1

“Plenty of the usual faces said the same admiring things in roughly the same slightly bland words. This affectionate tribute worked best on those for whom the name Franny Lee is not perfectly meaningless.”
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph

“The title says it all, really. (To be read in his voice, though of course he would be far too modest to.) Oh, I say, what a man, what a voice, what a legend!.”
 Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, BBC2

“The snag with Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, I’ve realised, is the fishing. Yes, it facilitates a lovely, bucolic vibe, yes, it’s a plus for fishing bods, but it doesn’t half bugger up the conversation.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

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