Jeremy Vine

Yeah, we've done two, yeah.

Oh my God, let's go on tour.

Listen, you need to get on the stage because you're presenting.

Well, what a night, thank you so much.

It's great to be here, everyone.

I am standing in for Sarah Cox, so she sends her love.

is on her way to Eurovision and she would be here were she not in Vienna.

Now we love books and we love reading on Radio 2 and we celebrate great fiction every week on the Radio 2 podcast and this whole new award is part of our love of books and I want to not spare her blushes but say quickly over by the wall on that side of the room is our brilliant controller Helen Thomas

who's made books central to Radio 2.

So she's the one, yeah.

She's gonna be so embarrassed.

She doesn't like the limelight, but she gave us the Chris Evans 500 words when she was his producer, and now it's the Book Club, and now it's this award, and also today, she's just announced that the Book Club, and this is big, is moving to Breakfast with Sarah.

So that's great.

Thank you, Helen.

Our books are chosen with the help of librarians across the country.

Let's hear it for them.

How have they not been mentioned before 8.05?

So librarians have helped pick our shortest and winner tonight.

They've been chosen from the 25 Radiative Book Club choices that we featured last year.

Very competitive.