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Reverend Richard Coles and Jeremy Vine talk to Rebecca Jones

Fictions: Murder He Wrote

Hay Festival 2025, 

Two of Britain’s best-known broadcasters discuss their new crime novels and how their own careers have influenced their books, murders excepted.

Writer and Anglican priest Coles’s new book is A Death on Location, in which he returns to the village of Champton as a glamorous movie set takes over the area. As actors don their bonnets, gowns and crowns, a murder interrupts filming.

In journalist Vine’s Murder on Line One, late night radio talk show host Edward Temmis is let go from his job. Cast adrift, he finds himself helping Stevie, whose grandmother, a devoted listener, died in a suspicious fire. Working together, the pair discover Stevie’s grandmother wasn’t the only one of Edward’s listeners targeted.