How Lovejoy put Essex villages on the map

It's 40 years since a charming yet slightly rogue antiques dealer played by Ian McShane appeared on our TV screens. Lovejoy was originally a series of detective novels by Colchester author Jonathan Gash, first published in 1977, and now the much-loved series is going to be remade.

71 episodes of Lovejoy were broadcast between 1986 and 1994 with scenes filmed across many locations in Essex from Saffron Walden to Braintree...

Picture: Chris Jury, Ian McShane and Dudley Sutton.
Credit: BBC.

Archive: Bookshelf (BBC Radio 4) - 22.03.1985.