Samuel Adams’s “for jenny” spaced out tiny gossamer notes over a delicate electronic track.

For once the pieces have stuck, the parts clicked, the jennies and pulleys and cogs aligned, however briefly, in mid air.

Inventions like Perkin’s — and the steam engine, the spinning jenny, the telegraph, the Bessemer steel-production process — destroyed the last vestiges of this way of life.

His editor on The World at One, Dame Jenny Abramsky, remembered him as a "gifted broadcaster" with "genuine warmth".

Unfortunately the performance is as wooden as Jenny’s letters.

“He is extremely knowledgeable about Judaism, and helps me broaden my knowledge base,” graduate student Lena Jenny wrote in an email.