About Me
Claire Peyton Jones
Claire has ten years experience in BBC Radio as a broadcaster, presenter, writer, researcher, dramatizer, producer and director for Radio 3, and 4 and the World Service, where she received critical acclaim. She worked on several award-winning radio programmes with the master of documentary features, Piers Plowright under whom she trained. Her late husband, the composer Jeremy Peyton Jones, helped her with many music mixes in these productions, so she benefited from his training too.
Claire lives in South East London with her family of adult children who come and go! She is a keen sailor, cyclist, cold water swimmer, theatre and concert goer, and she is an active member of All Saints Peckham and Southwark Cathedral. She is also a member of the William Blake Society which, in 2013, illustrated and made available her dramatization of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, first broadcast on Radio 3. Claire is now training for Lay Reader Ministry with the Church of England.
Portraits in Sound
Claire set up the company in 2009, but she had the original idea for it when she made a recording of her grandmother Molly Ullman in the 1980s. That monologue has given great pleasure to her great-grandchildren and her wider family of the next generation. You can hear a miniature of it on the listen page.
Claire can travel to any part of the UK to make a recording.
"Claire is passionate about drawing out a person's character by getting them to delve into their experiences. The result is a highly polished recording, which is, as it says on the tin, a portrait in sound. I found the recording revealed much more than I expected, and was surprisingly moving. A wonderful exercise."
Isobel Grant