Newsnight veteran Kirsty lands plum role on Radio 4
NEWSNIGHT presenter Kirsty Wark has landed a plum job in radio, with BBC chiefs today due to name her as the new host of Radio 4’s The Reunion.
Wark, 65, who has presented BBC2’s flagship news show for 28 years, will take over from veteran broadcaster Sue MacGregor, who last year stood down from the show after 16 years.
Wark, who joined the BBC in 1976 as a researcher for BBC Radio Scotland, will take over in August but will also continue to work on Newsnight.
She said: ‘It is a delight and a privilege to be asked to host The Reunion, a series I’ve always enjoyed enormously. It is by turns illuminating, affecting, sometimes sad and other times funny. Just a perfect Radio 4 programme.’
Previous editions of The Reunion have featured Auschwitz survivors, former prisoners from South Africa’s Robben Island, and the Maids of Honour who took part in the Queen’s 1953 Coronation.
One of the show’s most memorable editions brought together an IRA terrorist responsible for bombing the Grand Hotel in Brighton with some of his victims.
MacGregor, 78, shocked her many fans last October when she announced her decision to leave the programme.