Your Call: What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note

Vine

ISBN 10: 1474604935 / ISBN 13: 9781474604932

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Your Call: What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474604935
• ISBN 13: 9781474604932
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

\x27Full of glorious examples of caller wisdom [with] laugh\-out\-loud anecdotes\x27 Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph<\/i><\/b>
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Jeremy Vine has been presenting his BBC Radio 2 show since 2003 \- it now attracts more than seven million listeners. He calculates he has taken more than 25,000 calls from his listeners on issues big and small: life, love, lollipop ladies and poisonous plants.<\/p>

But what have the callers told him? If you listen to Radio 4, Brexit was a shock. If you are on Radio 2 it would not have surprised you at all. Where Jeremy\x27s callers once expressed a kind of resignation (\x27But what can you do?\x27) or a gloomy rejoinder (\x27You have to laugh\x27), now they give him their views expecting to be heeded.<\/p>

Listener wisdom is far more valuable than most of what we hear from appointed spokespeople. What was the response when Jeremy asked: \x27Have you ever been pecked in the eye by a gannet?\x27 Which subjects are most likely to start pitched warfare between different sections of the audience? (Answer: old people using buses, old people NOT using buses, cellophane, or Tony Blair saying anything.)<\/p>

In a book punctuated by his own vivid stories and laugh\-out\-loud moments, Jeremy Vine explains what it\x27s like to hit a button and hear \- totally unvarnished and unspun \- the voice of the so\-called \x27ordinary\x27 person. And why we should take notice.<\/p>

About the Author

<p>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 POINTS OF VIEW. He also does the BBC election graphics.</p><p> 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. He was a presenter of NEWSNIGHT too. He lives with his wife Rachel and daughters Anna and Martha in west London.</p>