A new podcast I hosted and made with Audio Always and Wondery. The Times 5 star review called it “engrossing and quietly horrifying”, “in other hands it would make me queasy. But Jones handles it with admirable sensitivity”, adding it is “the best true crime series I’ve heard in a long time — I was gripped.”
Listen here: https://audioalways.lnk.to/thepitcairntrials
I have presented many of Radio 4’s biggest programmes. I started hosting PM when I was 24 and went on to host the World at One, Broadcasting House, topical debate on Any Questions, to arts and culture with Front Row and Saturday Live.
For many years I was a reporter for the BBC Radio 4 news sequence programmes ……
For 2 years I presented iPM. The show was a spin-off of PM and was made using the contributions of Radio 4 listeners…
I’m a regular host of The Times’ daily news and current affairs podcast Stories of our Times….
Interesting recent episodes include…
The exposé of a £2m fraudster with seven lives
The battle between British police and cocaine traffickers
I interviewed Michael Lewis on his news-making book on Sam Bankman-Fried
For the world’s biggest radio station I’ve hosted Weekend a morning news and current affairs programme…
“We have to do more” on screening aid trucks going into Gaza, Netanyahu advisor @MarkRegev tells me.
— Luke Jones (@LukeJones) December 3, 2023
They “have to do that quicker, more effectively” @bbcworldservice pic.twitter.com/JmPChiHX9I
I’ve also regularly hosted OS, a 2-hour rolling news programme broadcast from the BBC’s newsroom in London….
I also used to present The Newsroom a half-hour round-up of global news, hearing from BBC correspondents from around the world.
I’m presenting and executive producing a new show, looking at the creative process behind some of UK theatre’s top productions.
Here’s a clip from the episode featuring Ralph Fiennes, David Hare and Nick Hytner.
I hosted Breakfast on Times Radio for two years. The station is a mix of news, robust debate and political interviews.
On Breakfast I fixed and conducted many long-form exclusive interviews…
I also regularly covered Times Radio Drive Monday through Thursday…
I was recently one of the few passengers onboard a record-breaking long distance research flight. I reported for BBC News, self-shooting and editing a TV piece and digital video, reporting live for 5Live, the BBC World Service and BBC World Television, and filing a radio package for Radio 4 and the World Service.
I’m a theatre critic for one of the UK’s most read newspapers, doing first night reviews for the main paper and contributing to their Friday arts section. I also occasionally contribute to The Times & Sunday Times with news pieces and features.
