Jeremy Vine

Self effacing newsman
Jeremy Vine

Jeremy Vine’s award-winning daily programme, The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, is one of the most listened-to radio programmes in the UK. Along with his daily topical programme on Ch5 – Jeremy Vine, Jeremy also presents Eggheads on Ch5 and is well known for presenting the graphics for all BBC election specials at the helm with David Dimbleby and Emily Maitlis.

His career as a trainee reporter began at the Coventry Evening Telegraph, in the days of manual typewriters and hot metal presses, when the CET sold more copies than the Independent does now. After that he was a BBC news trainee, Today reporter (he was ambushed by rebels in Croatia and nearly died), political correspondent during the nineties, Africa correspondent based in Johannesburg, and Newsnight presenter ― the most frightening assignment of all, working alongside the legendary Jeremy Paxman.

In September 2017, Jeremy published What I Learnt: What my listeners say and why we should take notice, a memoir punctuated by vivid anecdotes and laugh-out-loud moments. He discusses his Radio 2 show and explains what it’s like to hit a button and hear – totally unvarnished and unspun – the voices of so-called ordinary people. And why they are not so ordinary after all. In 2015 Jeremy donned his dancing shoes becoming a hugely popular contestant on Strictly Come Dancing.

 

Jeremy Vine