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Kirsty Lang

Kirsty Lang is a familiar voice on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 and one of Britain’s most respected and experienced journalists and broadcasters.

Her Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ career began in 1986, and she worked as Central Europe correspondent for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service and as a reporter on Newsnight.

After a spell as Paris correspondent for the Sunday Times, she joined Channel 4 News on which she was a regular presenter for four years. From 2002 she presented the TV news programmes The World and World News Today, and became a regular presenter on the Radio 4 arts show Front Row. She took over the chair of Round Britain Quiz in 2022.

Kirsty has been a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York and currently lectures in Anthropology at University College, London.