Which way now ?

Jonty Claypole has decided to step down as the BBC’s Director of Arts in April 2021. He's done the job for seven years without ever bothering the list of senior staff paid more than £150k. Bob Shennan was appointed as Director of Music at the same time, in the first flush of Lord Hall's re-commitment to culture, but did rather better, dosh-wise. 

Jonty, 45, was born in Australia, but grew up in West London. His first book, Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency, is set for publication in January (He spent fifteen years of his life in and out of extreme speech therapy). It already has endorsements from novelists Colm Toibin and David Mitchell, and poet Owen Sheers.