Steph McGovern

yes exactly has it ever happened to you fortunately not but i used to think about it all the time like i don't know if you've ever done this jeremy but when i was doing like breakfast news in between being on telly i would just imagine catastrophic things like what would we do if we got hijacked and so that just kept playing on my mind probably because i read too much crime fiction so well i think that the most fun event i did in my book tour was was doing one with you because it was

Yes, and you're coming up to hand out an award as well.

I'm coming up to hand out an award.

Wow.

So, we are going to move on to our next award.

It's a brand new one for 2026 as well.

The British Book Awards.

has partnered with Radio 2's Book Club.

So this is the Radio 2 Book Club Award hosted of course by the brilliant Sarah Cox.

The Radio 2 Book Club celebrates new fiction and authors through weekly interviews, reviews and reading recommendations.

To present this award, we welcome broadcaster, journalist, and very familiar voice on Radio 2, and instant Sunday Times best-selling author of Maida Online 1, please welcome my mate Jeremy Vine!

The Greens obviously are expected to do well in these elections.

The view is because the Green Party want to increase taxes and public spending, the bond markets will be like, well, hang on a minute.

How are they going to pay for all this?

How are they going to do all this?

We're delighted to say that this year the rest is money.

It's being powered by Octopus Energy.

So Greg is back with us.

Greg, I've got another question for you.

So in terms of energy companies, are we just back to the big six?