Tobias Jones - Articles and Broadcasts

Below are links to various essays, articles and programmes that I’ve written in recent years:

		Ultra - An interview and extract from the book
We’re All Living in Berlusconi’s World Now	Diabolik, king of football’s far-right ultras, died as he lived … violently
Italian mafia makes millions by exploiting migrants	An unsolved murder at Italy’s most notorious tower block
The fascist movement that has brought Mussolini back to the mainstream	The Joys and Benefits of Bilingualism
Inside Italy's Ultras	The Faustian Pact of Tourism
Rootlessness in the Countryside	Free love or genocide? The trouble with Utopias
A discussion on community solutions at the Royal Society of Arts	A discussion about the modern family on Radio 3
Beekeeping	An Extract from A Place of Refuge
The Murder of Yara Gambirasio	The Murder of Daniele Lo Presti
30th Anniversary of Emanuela Orlandi's Disappearance	Addiction and Recovery
Italy's Third Republic	Ash Disease
Danilo Restivo finally convicted of murder	Tobias talks on Radio 4 about his new book, Blood on the Altar (Interview from minute 18.30 onwards) Download here
Brief Portrait of Italian Prime Minister, Mario Monti	Exploring the Stereotypes about Italy and England
An essay on Ross MacDonald, one of my literary heroes	The Tragedy of Justin Fashanu
And another of my heroes, Fabrizio De Andre	The Monster of Florence
A (pretend) interview with one of my (long-dead) heroes, G.K.Chesterton	Profile of a great English football manager
How on earth is Berlusconi still in power? And again, same question Am I repeating myself?	Danilo Restivo's Murder Conviction An intriguing legal battle in Italy The British expenses scandal (in Italian) Plati - an outlaw town in Calabria Yellow and Black - a review of recent Italian crime fiction
A half-hour documentary I wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4, “Piece by Piece”, about the 10^th anniversary of the Assissi earthquake (produced by Simon Elmes) Download here (MP3 33Mb)
A half-hour documentary I wrote and presented for BBC Radio 4 about the “Tolstoyan Colony” of Whiteway in Gloucestershire (producer Mark Burman). Download here
The serialisation of Utopian Dreams on Radio 4’s Book of the Week: Download Part 1 (MP3 11.1Mb), Part 2 (MP3 11.0Mb), Part 3 (MP3 10.9Mb), Part 4 (MP3 10.7Mb), Part 5 (MP3 10.9Mb)