about

Lyndon Jones is based in Cardiff, Wales. He worked at the BBC for 20 years, first as a BBC Studio Manager in London and subsequently as a Producer in the Music Department in Cardiff. From 2003-2008 he was Senior Producer of Radio 3’s Composer of the Week.

Since leaving the BBC, Lyndon has been a sessional lecturer in Media Production at the University of South Wales. He has produced podcasts (Bath Literature Festival, Bowers and Wilkins, Universal Music Group) and many editions of Jazz Now with Soweto Kinch for BBC Radio 3. He worked with Iain Burnside on the Ludlow English Song Weekend 2013-15, and was Artistic Director of Swansea International Festival from 2014-18. From 2015-18 he produced a series of live webcasts for City of London Sinfonia from the Village Underground club in Shoreditch, London. From 2013 to he present Lyndon has also been part of the auditioning panel for the world-famous BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.

From 2019-21, in collaboration with his partner Bella Kerr, he produced two series of short films ‘Revealing Wales‘ for the Royal Society of Architects in Wales; and in 2020 he worked with violinist Rachel Podger and keyboardist / composer Chad Kelly to produce a produce a film of Kelly’s new arrangement of JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations for the Brecon Baroque Festival: The Times gave it a five-star review.

In 2019/ 2020 he produced two editions of In the Studio for BBC World Service: one on the maverick British conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner; and another on the Sistine Chapel Choir.

In 2021 he worked as sound recordist on Arwel’s House for Owen Davies, and The Golden Apple for Hanan Issa; both Ffolio productions for Ffilm Cymru / BBC Wales; and also produced a short film for Rogers Stirk Harbour Architects about the installation of their new sustainable social housing development at Crofts Street in Plasnewydd, Cardiff.

During 2022, again working with Bella Kerr, he produced an edition of Archive on 4 about the history of community art in Britain for BBC Radio 4. Recently he has recorded chamber music for BBC Radio 3 at festivals in Machynlleth, Cowbridge, and Bath; and completed all the recording and post-production for Radio 4’s critically acclaimed Alexei Sayle’s Strangers on a Train. A new series has been commissioned and is due to broadcast through July/August 2023.

Lyndon Jones working on the BBC Radio 4 broadcast, Everyone is an Artist in 2022. Photograph by Bella Kerr.