To celebrate World Book Day, our presenters have been dressing up as their favourite literary heroes and hosting shows in full costume!
Comic book artist Jamie Smart joins Sara for a World Book Day special! Plus join Sara on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Royal Library in Windsor Castle.
Scott Mills = The Lion, The Witch (or Wizard?) and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
WATCH: A tale of a missing lion, the wrong costume and a wardrobe that can’t fit through the door.
Vernon Kay = A stormtrooper from the Star Wars books and graphic novels
Yes, it really is Vernon in that costume!!
Jeremy Vine = Agatha Christie, the legendary crime fiction writer and best selling author of all-time!
Trevor Nelson = Long John Silver from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Richie Anderson = Long John Silver’s parrot… (and definitely not in a last-minute chicken costume he found in the office during Trevor’s show…)
Long John Silver and his ‘parrot’, aka Trevor and Richie, together at last*
*Please note no Radio 2 travel presenters were shrunk in real life to create this image
Sara Cox = Agnes from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet
Jo Whiley = Bee from Ant and Bee, the early learning books for children by Angela Banner
OJ Borg = Superman from the comics and graphic novels
Owain Wyn Evans = Mary Poppins from the P.L. Travers books
Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Traffic = The Devil Wears Prada, the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger
Comic book artist Jamie Smart joins Sara for a World Book Day special! Plus join Sara on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Royal Library in Windsor Castle.