Barrie Gavin obituary

Prolific director whose TV films on music and the arts constitute an astonishing record of British cultural history over more than six decadesThe prolific film-maker Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, played a key role in the representation of music and the arts on British and European television from the start of his career in the 1960s, and was still working on ideas for new projects in the days before he died. Cataloguing his works over more than six decades, he was boyishly proud of the fac