BBC Radio 4's The Gift returns with a new series of jaw-dropping stories of secrets uncovered by DNA tests Exposing scandals, solving mysteries and delivering life-changing news, Jenny Kleeman investigates what happens when genealogy, technology and identity collide

I am so excited to share series 3 of The Gift with you all. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

"How to change your mind" - James O'Brien in conversation with Jenny Kleeman YouTube video by OffGrid Sessions

A thing I did with the excellent Jenny Kleeman for the OffGrid festival. It’s mostly about my beloved & deeply personal second book, How Not To Be Wrong, which sadly got a bit swamped by the pandemic.
Just in case 16 hours a week of me isn’t enough…
youtu.be/OHo9vzstb04

LRN No.70: Undercover in New Labour From button cameras to smart glasses

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All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

That’s really kind of you

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

I wrote about Karen Newton, a retired grandmother from Hertfordshire. who was locked up for six weeks in an ICE detention facility - even though she had a valid US visa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How’d You Do That? Jenny Kleeman, Orwell Prize-winning writer and broadcaster "I just like weird stuff, and 'weird stuff' is not something that you can put on your bio"

open.substack.com/pub/oliverfr... I was interviewed by @olifranklinwallis.bsky.social - a very good interviewer

Bruce is one of the most interesting people I spoke to in the reporting of Sex Robots and Vegan Meat. He has a book out this week on the future of meat which is eloquent and urgent and takes in everything from Robin Williams to The Simpsons. If you liked him in my book, you should read his

LRN No. 66: an important and powerful documentary that you probably shouldn't watch Plus: a cuddly toy of the Ebola virus

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LRN No.9: Suella in a feather boa warning: contains young Braverman

open.substack.com/pub/jennykle... Worth revisiting this one today. I knew Suella before she was Braverman

Thank you so much!

He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known? How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly conseque...

I wrote this, about how 33,000 people had their most intimate secrets stolen www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

LRN No. 65: introducing Ransom Man For over a year, I’ve been working on a brand new six-part documentary series for the BBC that launches tomorrow.

If you’ve ever typed anything you thought was private into a computer or phone, you need to hear the story of what happened to 33,000 therapy patients in Finland open.substack.com/pub/jennykle...

Well aren’t you lovely. Thank you.

But also very happy! Hello new people 👋

I don’t understand why I’ve got so many new followers over the weekend. Is it because X is so appalling and more people are coming here now? Am I in a new starter pack? Is it because my big new podcast is out next week? Is it because I was Ed Winters’ podcast? Let me know. I am flummoxed.

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides eBook : Kleeman, Jenny: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Want to read more books in 2026? Why not start with The Price of Life, which, it turns out, is incredibly cheap. A steal at 99p for the month of January amzn.eu/d/eum0IkG

I don’t honk it’s all factored in as good for the book. Poor Shakespeare - all those movie rights he never got to see

The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides eBook : Kleeman, Jenny: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Want to read more books in 2026? Why not start with The Price of Life, which, it turns out, is incredibly cheap. A steal at 99p for the month of January amzn.eu/d/eum0IkG

Verdict: only a hint of grapefruit. An afterthought. A suggestion. Orange would have been a better suggestion.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

It think it’s fixed itself now

Dropbox is down. Substack is down. And Downdetector seems to be down. Or is it just me?

The latest @thenewcartoonist.bsky.social has been spewn forth including fine contributions from #squiggleking @songicartoons.bsky.social @chicanepictures.bsky.social
@deancartoons.bsky.social @jennykleeman.bsky.social & my latest...ahem...technology report🖋

Get it here issuu.com/thenewcartoo...

Absolutely delighted to have won the FPA Media Award for Print & Web Story of the Year 2025. It’s for a piece I wrote for the FT Magazine on how Israeli is turning its dead soldiers into fathers. Read it free with this link
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She was a prison officer. He was a convicted rapist. How did she fall for him? Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington was working in a men’s prison when she began a relationship with an inmate that would turn her, too, into a criminal. How do some of the most dangerous men in Britain get...

Dozens of female prisons officers have been sacked for having sex with male inmates. At least 10 were convicted this year following affairs with prisoners. This is a systemic problem within our prison service. So grateful to Cherrie for trusting me with her story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

She was a prison officer. He was a convicted rapist. How did she fall for him? Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington was working in a men’s prison when she began a relationship with an inmate that would turn her, too, into a criminal. How do some of the most dangerous men in Britain get...

Dozens of female prisons officers have been sacked for having sex with male inmates. At least 10 were convicted this year following affairs with prisoners. This is a systemic problem within our prison service. So grateful to Cherrie for trusting me with her story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

You will find out next spring!

Every so often you do an interview and the person is so eloquent and brilliant and you are flooded with the juice of it all and feel incredibly privileged to be a journalist.

On Lifestyles with Selina MacKenzie from 14.00CET - Emmi Salonen with 'The Creative Wellbeing Handbook: How to fuel creativity, find balance and stay inspired', Kate McIntosh's 'How to Add Flavour', and @jennykleeman.bsky.social on 'The Price of Life'