SCOONES, Eleanor Jane (1981-2023)

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The TV director Eleanor Scoones has died - obit in the Telegraph  Eleanor Scoones, television director who worked with Lucy Worsley and on Who Do You Think You Are? – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

She was the dau of Philip Anthony Francis SCOONES and (m 1980) Jane Francesca b 1950 dau of Sir David Haven BARRAN (1912-2002) yst son of Sir John Nicholson Barran, 2nd Baronet 

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Eleanor Scoones, director who enlivened factual TV with Who Do You Think You Are? and Lucy Worsley – obituary

Seeing historical figures in all their flawed and fascinating humanity was a hallmark of her approach to programme-making

Eleanor Scoones, who has died of cancer aged 42, was a director of factual television credited with doing much to advance the way the medium tackles history, her programmes breathing new life into centuries-old tales without any sacrificing of academic rigour.

When the historian Lucy Worsley dressed up as a Restoration-era mistress in the BBC Four series Harlots, Housewives and Heroines, Eleanor Scoones was the guiding hand, as she was on numerous other occasions when Worsley added vividness and levity to her programmes by donning costume….

Eleanor Scoones was born in Stepney, East London, on January 20 1981, to Philip and Francesca, the latter’s work for the National Trust helping to open her daughter’s eyes to the riches of the past….

Eleanor Scoones is survived by her husband Xavier and by their two daughters.  [DPB online has not recorded her marriage or her children whose names appear to be Ada and Juno]

Eleanor Scoones, born January 20 1981, died July 2 2023