Jeremy Vine
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Podcast Appearances
And it was about going to mums whose sons had died in Iraq or Afghanistan and asking them to remember their sons through the music they loved.
And of course, the funny thing as we've been talking about music is that they probably didn't really much like that.
The music, their son was blasting out.
But now he's gone.
They've only got the music.
And the most incredible conversations.
I mean, I don't think I've ever done anything like that before.
But I, I don't know, I spent ages as a reporter.
And I remember going, you know, one day you do sheep racing in Dorset and then you'd be sent to Serbia or something and all around the world and Russia.
Yeah, it was incredible.
And it was like I always thought a holiday at high speed.
Sort of taking so much in.
So, yeah, and I now love what I do with just I say hello to Brian in, you know, Cumbria and Brian says, here's what I think has gone wrong.
And he's got the answer.
And it's the revelation that when I was on Newsnight, I thought we tell the audience the news.
Now I'm on Radio 2, I realise the audience tell us.
We haven't got a clue what's going on.
And that's the right way around.
So my bookshelf has got a lot of stuff from stories I've done and people I've interviewed and all that.