The Pitcairn Trials

I created and hosted this investigative podcast with Audio Always and Wondery. The series goes inside a decades-long fight for justice and the truth on a small British island in the middle of the South Pacific.

Picked as an Apple Podcasts global “Series Essential” - “These series are the pinnacle of podcasting and we celebrate them as some of the medium’s greatest achievements.”

Best Host - British Podcast Awards 2025 nominee

Best Factual Series - ARIA awards 2025 nominee

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.”

The Observer’s Miranda Sawyer called it “gripping” and “handled with impressive sensitivity by Luke Jones…Jones is excellent throughout”.

The Financial Times called it “compelling” story told with “the utmost sensitivity”

Listen to the whole series for free here: https://audioalways.lnk.to/thepitcairntrials

BBC Radio 4

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…

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The Times

I co-host The Times’ flagship podcast The Story, going in depth on one story each day, with the help of Times and Sunday Times journalists.

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

How Italy’s hard-right claimed JRR Tolkein

BBC World Service

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.

They “have to do that quicker, more effectively” @bbcworldservice pic.twitter.com/JmPChiHX9I
— Luke Jones (@LukeJones) December 3, 2023

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.

Sky Arts

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.

Times Radio

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…

BBC TV News

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.

Writing

I’m was a theatre critic for one of the UK’s most read newspapers, The Daily Mail, 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. I recently wrote a Sunday Times Magazine based on my Pitcairn podcast series.

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