An Evening With

Jeremy Vine 'What I Learnt'

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Last Show: Wednesday 15 th November 2017

PizzaExpress Live (Holborn)

Jeremy Vine’s fascinating recent autobiography tells us what his listeners say and why we should take notice! For example if you listen to Radio 4, Brexit was a shock. If you are a Radio 2 listener it wouldn't have surprised you at all. Broadcaster Jeremy Vine has been presenting his BBC Radio 2 show since 2003 and calculates that he has taken more than 25,000 calls on topical subjects - both big issues and small ones: from life and love to lollipop ladies and poisonous plants.  Where Jeremy's callers once expressed a kind of resignation ('But what can you do?' or the gloomy rejoinder: 'You have to laugh'), now they tend to give him their views expecting to be heeded. They have not called in to the show to entertain the audience. They expect to take the wheel of the car and drive.

Jeremy’s new memoir is punctuated by vivid anecdotes, laugh-out-loud moments and tips learnt via Eggheads and Strictly Come Dancing, and specially for the Pizza Express audience he will explain 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.

Jeremy Vine presents the award-winning Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2, weekdays at noon. He presents one of the BBC's longest-running quiz shows, Eggheads, as well as Crimewatch and Points of View. He also does the BBC election graphics.  After starting his training at the Coventry Evening Telegraph, Jeremy became a BBC news trainee in 1987. He worked for many years as a reporter - in Westminster, Africa, and on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme and formerly presented BBC 2’s Newsnight.