Jolyon Jenkins

BBC Radio 4 - How to Play, Verdi's La Traviata with Opera Holland Park Musicians invite us to eavesdrop on rehearsals for one of Verdi's most popular operas.

The fire, drama & soaring beauty of #Verdi’s #opera La Traviata are explored in How to Play at 9.30am @BBCRadio4 with the artists of @operahollandpark.bsky.social & City of London Sinfonia as they prepared for their recent production. Producer @jolyonjenkins.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is why I love Record Review - the ONLY show on bbcradio3 where everything is not fabulous, marvellous and superb

Children’s magic books very rarely contain the tricks professionals use.

I think these were all arrested

About 15 people being arrested in Bristol for holding signs supporting Palestine Action

I have never heard anyone in Britain talk about draining the swamp

There is pretty good evidence from US doctors in Gaza (published in the NYT) that [at least some] members of the IDF HAVE targeted children. And small children at that.

Thank you for hanging in there

And it was my uncle Billy

Bristol 1970, 4’4 “

It looks as though Putin should take some golf lessons

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

It feels literally like a waste of space for @theguardian.com to give Owen Jones a column to enumerate the US’s historic shortcomings. Imperialism, slavery, segregation. We know all this. The question is what to do now. I see few ideas coming from that quarter

The Sunday times columnists this weekend were all banging the old drum about Gen Z, net zero, and Rachel Reeves’ CV. There was no sign at all that the world has changed. Finally Matthew Parris emerged to tell us that Russia was no threat and Ukraine had always been a “borderland”.

There’s a trail on bbcradio3 where Jenni Murray challenges us to name 10 women composers. Actually that’s pretty easy, though partly because bbcradio3 has spent time and money raising their profile. Slightly odd that JM should imply that it’s virtually impossible.

Are you asking if I know how to use a knife and fork?

Having someone’s number on speed dial. I think this is an anachronym lazily used by journalists who have forgotten that speed dial makes no sense any more

I have a feeling that Greenland will turn out to be a far away country of which we know little

Nothing more satisfying than killing a zombie statistic. Good work!

“Climbing up the ledder” …

I'm probably in a minority, but the wall to wall Christmas music on bbcradio3 is doing my head in

I’m sure she’ll be here soon