Jenny says goodbye, who says hello?

Departing BBC director of audio and music Jenny Abramsky held her final summer party at the exquisite Spencer House in St James's, central London, earlier this week. Guests including Melvyn Bragg, Libby Purves and Trevor Dann sipped champagne and packed the terrace overlooking Green Park. As the string quartet played Oh Danny Boy, Abramsky, who is bringing down the curtain on a near 40-year BBC career to chair the National Heritage Memorial Fund, told Monkey: "Of course I will miss it. I love everybody here, look at this mix of people, it's the joy of radio." But as the night wore on the question on everyone's mind was who is going to replace her as director of BBC radio. With the puff of white smoke expected next month the word is that the BBC's director of marketing, audiences and communications, Tim Davie has won a place on the shortlist, and could even be the one to beat. There was also a rumour doing the rounds that with Channel 4's radio expansion largely on hold the well-regarded former BBC Radio 5 Live controller Bob Shennan might be wooed back to the fold.