Jim Berrow

A life-long enthusiast for Bach and new music, Jim Berrow produced music and arts programmes for a major television broadcaster and now writes, edits and lectures on architecture and the history of the organ.

He was a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, is an honorary research fellow of the University of Birmingham and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Much of his time is involved with historic building conservation and he chairs the Birmingham Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches and is a lay assessor for the Register of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation (AABC RIBA).

Enthusiasms include real beer, Asian food, bibliographies, music and nineteenth-century architectural biography.