Steph McGovern: Deadline

Name: Steph McGovern: Deadline
Start: 2026-06-11T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Cullen Kilshaw Marquee

BBC Breakfast veteran Steph McGovern discusses her gripping debut crime novel Deadline, where reporter Rose goes live on air while her family is kidnapped.

Friday, 12 June 2026

8:30pm ‐ 9:30pm

Cullen Kilshaw Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

https://tikt.link/dealine

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Steph McGovern is one of Britain's best-known broadcast journalists - a BBC Breakfast veteran of eight years, former host of Channel 4's Steph's Packed Lunch, regular face on Have I Got News for You and co-host of The Rest Is Money podcast alongside Robert Peston. Now she's turned her insider knowledge of the TV world into a gripping debut crime novel. Deadline puts reporter Rose live on air - and at the mercy of someone who has kidnapped her family. It's a thriller only a broadcaster could have written, drawing on twenty years of experience in newsrooms and studios to deliver something utterly authentic. Steph joins us to discuss her move from news desk to crime fiction.