Jeremy Vine

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Jeremy Vine

Jeremy Vine interviewing Midge Ure at the 2005 Radio Festival in Edinburgh
Born May 17, 1965 (1965-05-17) (age 43)
Epsom, Surrey
Nationality British
Education Epsom College and Hatfield College, Durham University
Employers BBC
Known for Journalist and presenter
Spouse Rachel Schofield
Children 2
Relatives Tim Vine (brother)

Jeremy Vine (born May 17, 1965, Epsom, Surrey) is a British current affairs presenter for radio and television, as well as an author.

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[edit] Biography

Jeremy is the older brother of comedian Tim Vine, and actress/painter Sonya Vine. He was born to Guy Vine and Diana Tillett[1]. Jeremy was educated at Epsom College in Surrey, and played the drums in a band called "The Flared Generation." At Durham University (Hatfield College), he graduated with a first-class degree in English.

After a short stint on Metro Radio, Vine went on to a journalism training course with the Coventry Evening Telegraph[1] before joining the BBC in 1987.

[edit] BBC reporter

His career at the BBC included reading the news on radio in Northern Ireland and working as a researcher on the BBC1 religious-affairs series Heart of the Matter. In 1989 he became a regular reporter on the Radio 4 programme Today, filing reports from across Europe, from Ireland to Siberia.

While working for Today, he published two comic novels set amid the modern Church of England, Forget Heaven, Just Kiss Me (1992) and The Whole World In My Hands (1993). They were not very successful and Vine now regards them as juvenilia.

In the mid-1990s he became familiar to BBC TV viewers as a political reporter, reporting on the modernisation of the Labour Party and later making a mark with his irreverent reports on the 1997 General Election. He is known for his direct and some would say abrasive interview style.

[edit] BBC Radio 2

He became a regular presenter of BBC2's Newsnight in 1999, and was one of the original presenters of Broadcasting House on Radio 4. After several stints as a stand-in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 in 2001-2, he took over the lunchtime show permanently in January 2003, though there was initially some controversy when it emerged that Young had not retired voluntarily as had originally been claimed. Vine made certain changes to the format, most obviously taking telephone callers on air in addition to simply reading out comments.[2] The regular Thursday food slot was dropped, and the Monday health and Friday legal advice slots were revamped into, respectively, "The Health and Wellbeing Hour" (usually with either Dr Sarah Jarvis or Rabbi Julia Neuberger) and "Your Money and Your Life" (with a variety of contributors, most frequently Martin Lewis). Friday's shows frequently include a link-up to gardener Terry Walton at "The Official Jeremy Vine Show Allotment", and Lucy Berry was the show's in-house poet until October 2006.

Vine is one of the most prominent openly Christian broadcasters in the UK and has also presented numerous religious-themed programmes for the BBC. His regular programme addresses all manner of current affairs subjects - usually letting listeners take the lead as the facts are pulled together. It receives thousands of emails, calls and texts every day.[citation needed]

In 2005 Vine won the best speech broadcaster award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

[edit] BBC television presenter

Vine presented The Politics Show on BBC One from its launch in 2003, until Jon Sopel took over in 2005. From January 2007, Vine became the presenter of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme and the oldest current affairs programme in the world, Panorama, to coincide with the show's move back to a Monday peak-time slot. The move, from Sunday nights, was the idea of then BBC1 controller Peter Fincham and was widely regarded as a scheduling masterstroke. Vine was announced as Peter Snow's replacement for presenting the BBC election graphics, including the famous Swingometer, from May 2006. From 2008, Jeremy started presenting Points of View, taking over from Terry Wogan.

[edit] Personal life

In September 1992, he married Janelle Muntz in Westminster. His second wife is BBC News presenter Rachel Schofield. The couple married in September 2002 in East Devon, and have two daughters, Martha Rosamund (b. April 2004)[3] and Anna Charlotte (b. Dec 2006).

A former punk, Vine is a fan of Elvis Costello whom he has seen thirteen times in concert.[4]

Vine is the patron of Radio St. Helier [2], a UK registered charity providing radio programmes to hospital patients at St. Helier Hospital in Surrey.

His brother is actor and comedian Tim Vine.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.birmingham-press-club.co.uk/Vine-flyer.pdf
  2. ^ David Rowan: The Observer: Jeremy Vine profiled
  3. ^ Why Jeremy Vine, as a new father, is terrified by the crisis on our maternity wards | the Daily Mail
  4. ^ OFF THE TELLY: Reviews/2004/Jeremy Vine Meets

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