THE PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA GROUP

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MEDIA CONSULTANCY

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We are pleased to act as consultants to the National and International Media on issues where the input of a psychologist experienced in the arts and media can be helpful. This is on an agreed basis but typical examples are:

Below is a list of consultancy to date, showing the scope of topics available:

Media Consultancy ~ Andy Evans ~ Broadcast consultancy and appearances:

BBC TV Manchester                   ‘The Big Trip’: Assessment and Selection of participants

BBC TV News at Six                   Steven Fry

BBC TV ‘Kilroy’                           Psychosomatic Illnesses

BBC TV ‘Esther’                          Overnight Fame

BBC TV ‘Vanessa’                                The Nature of Celebrity (w.Max Clifford, Philip Norman)

BBC TV ‘Vanessa’                                Child Stars

BBC TV ‘Inside Story’                 Consultant for proposal on mental problems in the arts

BBC TV 24 hours                        Marks & Spencer’s new Poet in Residence

BBC TV 24 hours                        Paula Yates’ death

BBC TV ‘Fantasy Rooms’           Surrealism (with Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen)

BBC TV ‘The Ad Factor’             Creativity in advertising

BBC ‘Medicine Today’              Illness and Creativity (with Anthony Storr)

BBC Radio Scotland                  Fame and its effects on performing artists

BBC Radio Scotland                  Stage Fright (with Linda Ormiston + Donald Maxwell)

BBC Radio Scotland                  Batman

BBC Radio Leeds                       Elvis Presley

BBC Radio Southern                  Stage Fright in performers

BBC Radio Wales                      Ordinary people becoming celebs (Maureen Rees)

BBC World Service Radio          Dervish Dancers

BBC World Service Radio          Burnout in Classical Musicians

BBC World Service Radio          Famous Child Stars

BBC World Service Radio          Narcissism in Performing Artists

BBC Radio 3 ‘Music Matters’     Treating performance anxiety in musicians

BBC Radio 3 ‘Kaleidoscope’     Crash (The Movie): should it be censored?

BBC Radio 3                              Dancers in transition

BBC Radio 4 ‘Science Now’      Illness and Creativity

BBC Radio 5 ‘After Hours’          Fame in the Media

BBC Radio 5 ‘After Hours’          Critics (with A.A Gill, Jack Tinker)

BBC Radio 5 ‘After Hours’          The stresses of Christmas x 2 (96,97)

BBC Radio 5 ‘After Hours’          Singles - living alone

BBC Radio 5 ‘After Hours’          Stars and their entourages

BBC Radio 5 "The Jab"              Counselling Performing Artists

BBC Radio 5 Morning Mag        Charles and Camilla in the Media

BBC Radio 5 Hayes on Sunday           Ruud Gullitt - the pressures of management

ITV Documentary                      Celebrities Behaving Badly

ITV The Time, the Place             Sexual aids

ITV The Time, the Place             The Psychology of Jewellery

ITV The Time, the Place             Female Comedians

ITV ‘01 For London’                    Psychology and the Arts

ITV Capital Woman                   Musicals

ITV GM TV                                  New Years Resolutions

Channel 4 TV                             Digital Imaging

Channel 4 TV                             Quiz shows

Channel 4 TV - Post Mortem     The psychology of the dancer Nijinsky

Channel 5 TV - Espresso                      Child Actors

Channel 5 TV - Espresso                      Real Life TV programmes (Daz survey)

Channel 5 TV - 5.30 Exclusive  Are 90s rock bands too bland?

Channel 5 TV News                   The Archers

MTV Europe                               Sibling Rivalry in Oasis

FT Television                              Spoof Advertisements

TV Japan                                   Churchill’s Oil Paintings

TV Japan                                   The Psychology of Shakespeare

Fulmar TV                                   Dame Edna Everage

London LBC                               Take That’s new marketing strategy

London LBC                               How celebrities make comebacks

London News Radio                  Steven Fry (two separate occasions)

London News Radio                  Impersonators and simulating reality

London News Radio                  ‘The Nature of the Beast’, Illness and Creativity

London Talk Radio                    Charisma

London Talk Radio                    Celebrities and risk taking behaviour

Independent Radio News         The Spice Girls

Independent Radio News         Pop stars and privacy

Greater Manchester Radio       ‘Disappeared’ stars: Elvis, Morrison, Manic St Preachers

Austrian Radio                           Fame

Newspaper and Magazine Consultancy:

Sunday Times                            Screen Violence

Sunday Times                            Fame

Sunday Express                         Prince Charles’ water-colours

Sunday People                          Fame

Independent on Sunday           Arts Psychology Consultants

Independent on Sunday           Personal profile on my work

Independent on Sunday           Stresses on Celebrity Marriages

Independent on Sunday           The film ‘Shine’ (stresses on young pianists)

Independent on Sunday           Stage Fright

The Times                                   Counselling Performing Artists

The Times                                   Dustin Hoffman

The Guardian                            Health and the Musician

The Daily Mirror                         Celebrity Christmas Cards

The Daily Mirror                         Celebrity Gingerbread Men

Today                                        Michael Jackson’s Videos

Today                                        Madonna in 1994

The Evening Standard                Arts Psychology Consultants

The Scotsman                            Extraversion in performers

The Scotsman                            Interpretation of celebrity doodles (auction, Dec 97)

The Sunday Post                        Mouse mats

Western Mail                             Chris De Burgh

The Birmingham Post                 Leonardo di Caprio

Issues in Focus                          Our Current Arts Policy

ME Magazine                            Irresistible Women

Harpers and Queen                  Celebrities re-inventing themselves

Bella Magazine                         Feminism Today

Bella Magazine                         The Frankenstein Syndrome

Bella Magazine                         Stage Romances

Bella Magazine                         Fans

Big Magazine                            Celebrity partners

NOW Magazine                         Pop Idols

Cosmopolitan                           Partners of famous people

Cosmopolitan                           Does Fame make people bad tempered?

Cosmopolitan                           Men’s body language

Women’s Realm                        Hollywood Stars in their Thirties

Heat Magazine                         Celebrities and dangerous sports

Maxim                                       James Bond 30 years on

BBC Music Magazine                Book Review - Music Therapy

Music FM                                   Stage Fright

The Musician                             Burnout, and how it affects musicians.

Music and Musicians                Musicality, can it be measured?

Melody Maker                          Manic St. Preachers

BAC CAW Journal                     Counselling in the Arts

ISSTIP Journal                             Book Review - Creativity and Disease

BPAMT Journal                           Dancers in Transition

BPAMT Journal                           British performing arts clinics: data comparison

Amateur Photographer             Processing Medium Format Prints

Advertising Consultancy

The PR Business, London                     TV viewing habits

The Billett Consultancy             Staff selection using psychometric tests