Jennifer Lucy Allan is an author, journalist and broadcaster with a PhD in foghorns. She is the author of The Foghorn's Lament and she is a presenter on BBC Radio 3's long running music show, Late Junction, and presented "Life, Death and the Foghorn," and "Oh Yoko!" for BBC Radio 4. As a journalist she has written on underground and experimental music for over fifteeen years, and also co-ran the record labels Arc Light Editions and Good Energy.