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Kirsty Wark on leaving Newsnight, Sports Personality of the Year

Kirsty Wark talks to Emma Barnett about stepping down from Newsnight after 30 years. Could a woman win the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's annual Sports Personality of the Year award later today?

Kirsty Wark joins Emma Barnett to talk about stepping down from Newsnight after 30 years; what she’s planning to fill the extra time with and she also shares some Christmas cooking tips.

A new book, A Heart Afire, paints a picture of paediatrician Helen Taussig who dedicated her life to looking after children with heart defects. We hear from author Patricia Meisol.

We look at the issues of "workplace housework" - tasks like organising office Christmas parties, sorting the secret santa gifts, decorating the communal spaces - with economist Lise Vasterlund and comedian Cally Beaton.

Could a woman win the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's annual Sports Personality Of The Year award later today? Now in it's 70th year, we talk to Lady Mary Peters who won the gong in 1972 – the same year she won gold in the pentathlon at the Munich Olympics.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Manager: Neva Missirian

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Tue 19 Dec 2023 10:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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