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| Name | Jeremy Vine |
|---|---|
| Caption | Jeremy Vine interviewing Midge Ure at the 2005 Radio Festival in Edinburgh |
| Birth date | May 17, 1965 |
| Birth place | Epsom, Surrey, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Journalist and presenter |
| Education | Epsom CollegeHatfield CollegeDurham University |
| Employer | BBC |
| Spouse | Rachel Schofield |
| Relatives | Tim Vine (brother) |
Jeremy Guy Vine (born 17 May 1965) is a British author, journalist and news presenter for the BBC. He is known for his direct interview style and exclusive reporting from war-torn areas throughout Africa. He is the current host of the BBC Radio 2 programme, Jeremy Vine, which presents news, views, and interviews with live guests.
Jeremy was educated at Lynton Preparatory School and Epsom College and played the drums in a band called The Flared Generation. At Durham University (Hatfield College), he graduated with a 2:2 undergraduate degree in English.
After a short stint on Metro Radio, Vine enrolled in a journalism training course with the Coventry Evening Telegraph, before joining the BBC in 1987.
A former punk, he is a fan of Elvis Costello, whom he has seen 13 times in concert. Vine is the patron of Radio St. Helier, a UK registered charity providing radio programmes to patients at St. Helier Hospital in Surrey.
Vine is a practising Anglican. He has deplored the marginalisation of Christians in British society, saying that "You can't express views that were common currency 30 or 40 years ago".
He was named Speech Broadcaster of the Year in the 2011 Sony Awards. (He won the same award in 2005). His 2010 election interview with Gordon Brown, where the Prime Minister put his head in his hands as he was played the recording of him calling a voter a bigot, won Jeremy the Sony Award for Interview of the Year.
While working for Today, he published two comic novels set amidst the modern Church of England, including Forget Heaven, Just Kiss Me (1992) and The Whole World In My Hands (1993). The novels were not successful and Vine now regards them as juvenilia.
In the mid-1990s, Vine became familiar with BBC TV viewers as a political reporter, reporting on the modernisation of the Labour Party. He later made his mark offering irreverent reports on the 1997 General Election.
After the 1997 election, Vine became the Africa Correspondent based in Johannesburg, travelling all over Africa. Reporting assignments took him to the war front to report on the Eritrean–Ethiopian War, the Angolan Civil War, the violence in Lesotho after South African troops went in and hoisted a South African flag over the Royal Palace, following leadership disputes. He also travelled to Algiers and Kenya, to report during political elections.
Vine was successful in gaining interviews with key leaders in various African nations. Two of these included Robert Mugabe, current President of Zimbabwe; and the leader of the Islamist regime in Khartoum, Sudan. Other areas of Africa from which he has reported include Mali, Zambia, Sierra Leone, and the Niger Delta, to report on the Nigerian villagers' unrest over the work of the oil companies.
In April 1999, Vine presented an exclusive report on South African police brutality for BBC Two's Newsnight. The film won the Silver Nymph at the Monte Carlo Television Festival, and resulted in the suspension of 22 police officers. Following this report, Vine joined Newsnight full-time as a presenter. He was one of the original presenters of Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4.
In May 2006, Vine was announced as Peter Snow's replacement for presenting the BBC election graphics, including the famous Swingometer. His performance on the night of the council elections in England and Wales on 30 April 2008, was widely criticised.
In January 2007, Vine became the presenter of the BBC's flagship and the world's oldest current affairs programme, Panorama, which coincided with the show's move back to a Monday peak-time slot. The move from Sunday nights was the idea of BBC1 controller Peter Fincham and was widely regarded as a scheduling stroke of genius.
In 2008, Vine started presenting Points of View, taking over from Terry Wogan. On 6 October 2008, he started hosting the BBC 2 quiz show Eggheads. He presents Eggheads while the spin-off show, Are You an Egghead? is presented by the regular host, Dermot Murnaghan.
After Vine took over the hosting duties, the show was revamped. While the regular Thursday food slot was dropped, the Monday health and Friday legal advice slots were retooled. Monday's The Health and Wellbeing Hour include either Dr Sarah Jarvis or Rabbi Julia Neuberger, while Friday's Your Money and Your Life, involve a variety of contributors, most frequently Martin Lewis. Friday's shows frequently include a link-up to gardener Terry Walton. Until October 2006, Lucy Berry served as the show's in-house poet. In 2005, Vine won the best speech broadcaster award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
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