Jon Harvey

Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday to me.

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson stole concrete mixers. And monster trucks. According to my four-year-old.

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Spurs are being run by a British general from the First World War.

My life used to be very different.

I’ll say this for HMRC. Compared to banks and doctors’ surgeries, their hold music is a banger.

In a flash of inspiration, this morning my sleep-addled brain twigged that our boiler whirrs at the same pitch, tempo and timbre as the opening to Does Your Mother Know by ABBA. My day may have peaked early.

We have a daughter! Penelope was born under the new year’s super moon. She has a furry back so she might be a were-baby, but in a world of portfolio careers this is an extra plus point. She’s incredibly cute and worth all the sleep deprivation.

Sarah is a doubly heroic mummy and we’re all in love.

If you watch Industry, I’m in the opening scene of tonight’s episode. Sort of…

All right - I've done a comedy writer and producers starter pack for everyone who's into that sort of thing. And YES, I've forgotten you, so remind me that you exist and YES I will put you on it (unless you have slighted me in some unremembered way in the last 20 years). go.bsky.app/AkQCH7U

Been a busy Christmas: producing Have I Got 2025 For You, presenting on Times Radio, producing a festive Unspeakable, ‘helping’ Count Binface interview Susie Dent, and Into The Sharkiverse getting a repeat airing. Time for a new production, of the human kind. Due any day.

A Space Alien Came Travelling Christmas Tidings to Earth from Sigma IX!

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Another masterpiece.

#sgtpepper2025

For Rob Reiner.

Championing Classics in state schools – Big Give Classics for All trains teachers to introduce and sustain Classics in their state schools. We give children and young people, …

I’ve been collaborating with @classicsforall.bsky.social who do fantastic work bringing Latin and Classics to state primary and secondary schools. It’s amazing how much the kids love it and how it boosts learning. A very worthy recipient in the Big Give:
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Unbelievable.

Beat this.

What the hell is this doing in a BBC News story?
1. Cut the flippancy FFS.
2. We assume you check EVERYTHING.
3. Pre-school kids know an ichthyosaurus is a fish dinosaur, so it’s not rocket science to guess an ichthyocentaur might be a fishy centaur.

Jeez.

Why Ashes series are every bit as epic as The Odyssey and The Iliad Why wait for Christopher Nolan’s film of The Odyssey? England and Australia are about to create their own version

Why Ashes cricket is as epic as the Iliad and Odyssey. My new piece in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/sport/the-ni...

Man City? Guardiola? Haaland?
Ezey Peasy. Who needs a Gooner anyway? We. Are. Top of the league. #COYS

Still the best news story of all time.

Thanks for trying! I'll ask Jon.

Hi Martin, did you have any luck? I can't find any reference prior to the 1956 adoption of the motto on the crest.

I can’t say I’ve ever previously spent a Sunday morning chatting about Sydney Sweeney with Jane Mulkerrins and Anneka Rice, but I’d do it again in a heart-beat! #nonemoreblonde #tokenbrunette

Thanks, really appreciate your help with this!

Thanks! Was that in 1884?

@martincloake.bsky.social Hi Martin, I'm writing a piece about football mottos and I wonder if you can help with a Spurs question. I'm trying to find out when the club adopted audere est facere, but there's no definitive answer on the web. Might you know? Any help would be amazing. Best wishes, Jon

@mrjonharvey.bsky.social Saw Unspeakable being recorded at The Cockpit Theatre tonight. Great guests, great format. Even the producer was funny.

Archive on 4 - Into the Sharkiverse - BBC Sounds Jon Harvey celebrates 50 years of Jaws with a hilarious history of shark fiction.

Happy Jaws Day! It surfaced in cinemas 50 years ago today. My little contributions to this epic anniversary:
Into The Sharkiverse: my 60min documentary about Jaws and shark fiction on BBC Radio 4: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
My Guardian piece: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...