He’s the Housewives’ Favourite, the Voice of Middle England on Radio 2, one moment discussing the perils of your other half leaving the gas on, the next slipping on an Elvis Costello track to liven up your lunch. Bit of a cheeky chappie, affable, engaging, amusing, doesn’t appear to take himself too seriously. We like that in a broadcaster. Self-important windbags James Naughtie, Nick Robinson and John Simpson, do please take note.
Jeremy discusses neighbours who keep sofas and old cars in their garden, no-fault dismissal, how a tragic car crash shattered one family’s lives and breastfeeding three-year olds,
the show’s website declares of his latest programme. This is the sort of stuff that he and his several million listeners are preoccupied by.
He says it has taken the plum Radio 2 job, which he got when Sir Jimmy Young was finally told he’d had a good innings, to make him realise that it’s the public, not the journalist, that always has the best stories.
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