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Act Your Age, Series 1". BBC Radio 4 Extra. 2015. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016 . Retrieved 18 September 2015. Jardine, Cassandra (23 May 2008). "Award-winning Simon Mayo – smooth, with a gentle bite". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 24 July 2013 . Retrieved 18 April 2011. Confessions, based on the hit feature from his BBC Radio 2 drivetime show, and his former BBC Radio 1 breakfast and mid-morning shows. [32] was released in October 2011. The book is a compilation of the best confessions sent to the show by listeners. Itch". Random House. 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012 . Retrieved 4 June 2012.

The idea first arrived six years ago, but Mayo wasn’t quite sure how to use it. “And then Covid came along and made it all suddenly feel strangely timely.” No one knows or can explain what is happening but the situation is getting worse all the time. What is the mystery behind the illness that is threatening to change the world. It took an awfully long time to get to the nitty-gritty or the meat of the story. But the book did not suffer in the least bit for that as it started to set the scene for the real eye-opening reveal. The truth about Porton Down, Lilly's father and friends and it's experiments. And that is only the start of a minefield that the three main protagonist have just walked into. Radio remains my priority,” he insists. “You can always tell, I think, if a presenter is not putting their show first, and it’s important for me to keep mine as sharp as possible. But I do love writing, and so most mornings you’ll find me at my desk.”Mayo is also a published author. His works include a book titled Confessions, based on the Confessions slot from his radio shows, and several fictional thrillers. At least we didn't have too much of a problem with Jess, Lilly's daughter. She disappeared by moving to her dad's place early on in the novel, not returning till near the conclusion of things. These days, his tinnitus – the inspiration for his new novel and probably caused by loud music in his early career – makes social events harder. I read ‘Knife Edge’ by Simon Mayo last year and thoroughly enjoyed it so I was very much looking forward to reading his latest novel. The radio presenter come author writes well and along with intruging storylines and interesting characters the novels make entertaining reading. Before you know it, it spreads. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges, small outbreaks at first, contained groups of people, young and old, and suddenly it's a plague - and ten days later it's killing people. The hospitals are overflowing and there is no cure. There is a paranoid panic which sets friend against friend, neighbour against neighbour. Where does the world go from here?

This is the first book that I have read by the author, Simon Mayo, and it will definitely not be the last. I have to admit that I hadn't realised the guy had turned his hand to writing, so I will have to play catch-up on his previous work after this brilliant novel. Braithwaite, David. "Blog entry: Wittertainment's rules of cinema conduct". BBC. Archived from the original on 24 July 2013 . Retrieved 1 October 2013. Like all Radio 1's high-profile presenters of the time, Mayo would take his turn to spend a week in a coastal area of the UK during the Radio 1 Roadshows which ran for three months of the summer. For a short while, he also presented an additional weekend show for the station on a Sunday afternoon, provisionally titled O Solomon Mayo, to cover for the absent Phillip Schofield, who was working in the West End. There was obviously a lot of research that has gone into the book on these topics and I thank Simon Mayo for the way he discusses them.The now 64-year-old joined Radio 1 in 1986 and became its breakfast show presenter in 1988. He stayed until 2001, when he transferred to Radio 5 Live’s afternoon show. In 2010 he took over Radio 2’s drivetime slot, but found his career there crashing to an untimely halt in 2018 after one of the Beeb’s routine shake-ups. a b Gerard, Jasper (9 January 2010). "Simon Mayo on the move to Radio 2 and his new Telegraph column". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 12 January 2010 . Retrieved 10 January 2010.

And it’s writing, he suggests, that gives him the kind of lasting satisfaction he doesn’t necessarily get elsewhere.Jo Whiley& Simon Mayo – Monday – Thursday 5 pm–8 pm; Friday 5 pm–7 pm, 14 May 2018– 21 December 2018 School Report – Simon Mayo: BBC Radio 2 star interviewed by School Reporters". School Report. 19 March 2015. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. The novel tells the story of a different kind of pandemic through the eyes of three people at the heart of the storm. I like the well chosen setting for much of the action which I won’t mention as it could be a spoiler and the characters are well rounded and clearly portrayed. I really like Rose who is full of gumption and bravery, Kit is kind, caring and a great dad and Lilly is dogged in support of them I think you only had to listen to the endings of the various programmes I was doing to know it’s a very personal affair and when things are changed and ended in the style that happened to me, that certainly has an effect on you.

Joining Greatest Hits Radio was an exciting prospect,” he says. “I knew there was potential there because it was at the beginning of its story. When they approached me and said they wanted me to take over the drivetime show, I thought about it for all of 10 minutes. I knew it was exactly the right thing to do. The son of teachers, he cut his teeth on hospital radio and BBC Radio Nottingham, his ambition always to climb to the top at Radio 1. The breakfast show, landed in 1988, was a dream.

Simon, who initially moved to Scala Radio, now hosts his Drivetime show on Greatest Hits Radio, and says if Radio 2 is happy to lose older listeners, Greatest Hits is happy “because we are waiting to gather them with open arms and say, ‘You know that music you like that you hardly get any more? Well, come to us because you’ll get it all the time”. Then we rewind to four days earlier where a girl is described as an ‘irate fourteen year old girl” and two paragraphs later it’s her father who’s an ‘irate thirty nine year old man’. Give me a break! Moving onto the dialogue, which was awful and stilted, making it impossible for me to give a hoot about characters who talk nonsense. a b Martin, Roy (1 February 2021). "Simon Mayo to host Drive on Greatest Hits Radio". RadioToday . Retrieved 24 August 2022. Mayo returned to his Monday to Friday drivetime radio show on 15 March 2021 on Greatest Hits Radio, [27] resurrecting many staples from his former BBC Radio 2 drivetime shows, including "Confessions", "Tunesday", "Nigel's Recipes" (Foodie Thursday, sponsored by Heinz), and "All-Request Friday". He also presents his Album Show on Sunday afternoons, commencing September 2020. [28] Other work [ edit ] BBC Radio 4 [ edit ] But their investigation throws up more questions than answers until they realise the mystery behind the illness is even bigger than they could have imagined...