ingredients he could find, but longer cooking would have given it greater depth and subtlety of flavour." The novelist John Boyne said: "Bristling with energy, written with passion, Mad Blood Stirring is a joy to read." In 2020 Knife Edge, a first thriller for Mayo, was published. Its setting is drawn from his experiences when an undergraduate at Warwick University, and the denouement is in the neighbouring city of Coventry. The book was promoted as a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller. Tick Tock, a thriller based on a mysterious global illness, was published in 2022. Radio credits BBC Radio Nottingham – The Simon Mayo Show 10:45am2pm, 19821986 BBC Radio 1: Saturday evenings 7:30pm9:30pm, 19861987 Weekend early mornings 6am8am, late 1987 MondayThursday evenings 7:30pm10pm, JanuaryMay 1988 Breakfast Show 6am9am, May 1988September 1993 Mid Morning Show 9am12 noon, October 1993February 2001 BBC Radio 5 Live: Afternoon Show 1pm4pm, May 2001December 2009 Kermode and Mayo's Film Review Friday 2pm4pm, January 2010May 2019; 3pm5pm, May 2019March 2020, August 2021February 2022; 2:30pm4pm, March 2020August 2021, February 2022April 2022 BBC Radio 2: Album Chart Show Monday evenings 7pm8pm, October 2001April 2007 Music Club Monday nights/Tuesday overnight 11:30pm12:30am, April 2007April 2008 Drivetime Monday – Friday 5pm7pm, 11 January 20104 May 2018 Jo Whiley & Simon Mayo – Monday – Thursday 5pm8pm; Friday 5pm7pm, 14 May 2018 21 December 2018 BBC Radio 4 – Act Your Age 6:30pm, NovemberDecember 2008 Scala Radio: Monday – Saturday mid-mornings 10am1pm, 4 March 201926 February 2021 Essential Albums. Saturdays 3pm5pm, 3 April 2021 – present Greatest Hits Radio: Album Show. Sundays 1pm4pm, 6 September 2020 – present Drivetime Monday – Friday 4pm7pm, 15 March 2021 – present Personal life While at university, he was a presenter on the student radio station, Radio Warwick. In 2005 the university awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters. Mayo is married to Hilary Bird, who had worked at Radio Nottingham since 1984 on Action Line, and also worked for BBC Radio 2 as a producer for Canon Roger Royle and later Don Maclean on Good Morning Sunday from 1987 to 1990. The wedding took place on Saturday 11 October 1986 at St Helen's Church in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire. They have two sons and a daughter. Mayo is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur, and lives in London. Mayo was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to