Jeremy Vine
- BBC presenter, Jeremy Vine was born in Epsom in May 1965.
- After attending Epsom College and Durham University, Jeremy Vine had a stint on Metro Radio, but started his journalism career proper with a traineeship on the Coventry Evening Telegraph.
- Jeremy Vine joined the BBC in 1987 as a news trainee.
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Vine is well known for his jobs as presenter of Newsnight since 1999, as well as a host on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show, for which he won Speech Broadcaster of the Year in May 2005. He replaced Jimmy Young who had occupied the slot on BBC Radio 2 for 29 years.
- In his earlier days at the BBC, Jeremy Vine stood in for Brian Redhead on Radio 4's Today, presented Radio 4's PM and The Moral Maze and presented miscellaneous shows on BBC Five Live, including Newstalk.
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Appointments as a BBC reporter include political correspondent (1993) and Africa correspondent (1997). Jeremy Vine's report for Newsnight in April 1999 on South African police brutality won the Silver Nymph at Monte Carlo, and resulted in the suspension of 22 officers.
- From the beginning of 2007, Jeremy Vine joined the Panorama team as the main presenter.
- As a teenager Jeremy Vine played drums in a band called The Flared Generation.
- Jeremy Vine's 'likes' include the Courtauld Institute, Chelsea Football Club, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, The Brackenbury in Hammersmith, the films of Christopher Nolan, and the paintings of his sister Sonya Vine.