Rosenblatt Recital series founder Ian Rosenblatt explains how he was introduced to classical music, why he thinks there's snobbery in the classical music scene, and why his recital series is about entertainment not narcissism.

The first in a new series of Thoroughly Good Podcasts, dedicated to classical music. In this episode you'll hear what the series is about, and what it's not about. And you'll hear a story about how Jon Jacob was introduced to an entirely unexpected style of music.

Television is throwaway, but the demands we have of it are considerable. The people meeting those demands with towering achievements like those Nicoline was responsible for in 2014 are often overlooked by those of us staring at the TV screen. It's time for those people to step into the limelight.

This week's podcast looks back on a weekend of baking at a cookery school in Devon,revisits some of my memories of school, including lonely lunch breaks in the practice rooms. All very light and frothy, I promise you.

Exploring the uncomfortable experience of the age gap. This podcast asks how we can maintain the isolation we strive with an increasing need to connect with the younger generation.

Ruby Wax's Taming of the Mind provides the starting point for this podcast which over the course of its 25 minutes takes in the benefits of mindfulness and a fear of swimming in the deep-end and links it, miraculously, to writing.

Jon Jacob, a fully paid-up member of Generation Y discovers that one first questions to ask when working out what you want to do next, is to ask what you don't want to do next.

Reflections on a screening of 'Leningrad and the Orchestra that defied Hitler' recorded in mid-December 2015.

A chance interaction with an old acquaintance prompts an unexpected question: where did Jon Jacob lose sight of the creative headland he was excited to discover ten years ago?

It's Christmas 2015 and Jon Jacob's status as a middle-aged man is final confirmed.