Beowulf Mayfield reads The Day I (Nearly) Died, Billy Jenkins' account of a memorable day and night of artistic virtuosity, cross-cultural collaboration, administrative frustrations and sheer terror in Ostend...

Beowulf Mayfield tries his hand at hypnosis to take Billy Jenkins back to his childhood and the first day of nursery school. What could possibly go wrong? Starring Daniel Lemmar as the young Billy Jenkins.

Beowulf Mayfield corners record producer Tony Messenger to ask him about the challenge of recording Billy's legendary Big Fights! cassette series...

Billy describes how the pressures and irritations of suburban life inspired one of his most stamping, stomping and comical blues songs...

There's something out there in the darkness... It sounds like a scary film soundtrack is sneaking through the dark suburban streets... Don't worry, Billy assures us, it's only a string quartet - members of the Gogmagogs musical theatre group to be exact, and they only sound scary to consumers of the mainstream media...

When drummer Mike Pickering was a teenager he told a careers adviser that he wanted to be a drummer in a blues band. He had to wait a few years but in 1995 Billy Jenkins made that dream come true when he asked Mike to be part of the "holy trinity" at the heart of the Blues Collective. In this episode he recalls his part in that history...

When Billy performs away from home, he takes great care to learn as much as he can about local opinion and sensitivities. In this story we hear about the time, earlier in his career, when Billy put his foot right in it...

Maggie Day, sensation of Channel 4 First Dates in May 2017, reads Billy's account of the time he thought he'd spotted a fellow artist. You can never mistake a musician - well, almost never.

Record producer Tony Messenger talks about his long association with guitarist, bandleader and composer Billy Jenkins and describes the making of the 1998 True Love Collection

Guitarist, bandleader and composer Billy Jenkins describes the pain inflicted by the sound of too much so-called smooth jazz.