{"id":314721,"date":"2026-03-05T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314721\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:18:12","slug":"bbc-radio-2-the-radio-2-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314721\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 2 &#8211; The Radio 2 Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            To celebrate World Book Day, our presenters have been dressing up as their favourite literary heroes and hosting shows in full costume!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"promotion__synopsis centi text--subtle\">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.<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"block-link__overlay-link promotion__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/p0dwxkv4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LISTEN: The Radio 2 Book Club Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            Scott Mills = The Lion, The Witch (or Wizard?) and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4s1wq.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4tcrt.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            WATCH: A tale of a missing lion, the wrong costume and a wardrobe that can&#8217;t fit through the door.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image smp__holding\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4th6s.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Vernon Kay = A stormtrooper from the Star Wars books and graphic novels<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4sd0s.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            Yes, it really is Vernon in that costume!!<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4scbc.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            Jeremy Vine = Agatha Christie, the legendary crime fiction writer and best selling author of all-time!<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4s5kv.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            Trevor Nelson = Long John Silver from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4tb34.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            Richie Anderson = Long John Silver&#8217;s parrot&#8230; (and definitely not in a last-minute chicken costume he found in the office during Trevor&#8217;s show&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4tw3h.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            Long John Silver and his &#8216;parrot&#8217;, aka Trevor and Richie, together at last*<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4wpnj.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>        <\/p>\n<p>*Please note no Radio 2 travel presenters were shrunk in real life to create this image<\/p>\n<p>                                            Sara Cox = Agnes from Maggie O&#8217;Farrell&#8217;s 2020 novel Hamnet<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4vwd1.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4vx9y.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            Jo Whiley = Bee from Ant and Bee, the early learning books for children by Angela Banner<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4s8hp.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            OJ Borg = Superman from the comics and graphic novels<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4s5yn.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            Owain Wyn Evans = Mary Poppins from the P.L. Travers books<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4s6t5.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                                            Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Traffic = The Devil Wears Prada, the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/p0n4s7hv.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p class=\"promotion__synopsis centi text--subtle\">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.<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"block-link__overlay-link promotion__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/p0dwxkv4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LISTEN: The Radio 2 Book Club Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To celebrate World Book Day, our presenters have been dressing up as their favourite literary heroes and hosting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-314721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}