Freedland
to host The Talk Show on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ FOUR
Jonathan
Freedland is to present ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four's discussion programme, The
Talk Show.
Freedland will begin hosting the weekly programme from Monday 11
November, replacing Andrew Marr, who is moving to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4's
Start the Week.
Freedland
is an award winning journalist and broadcaster who has already made
regular appearances as presenter of The Talk Show.
He also fronts ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4's history series, The Long View and earlier
this year he deputised for Jeremy Paxman on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4's Start
the Week.
Since
1997 he has been a columnist on the Guardian, having served for
four years as the paper's Washington Correspondent.
In 1998 he published Bring ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ the Revolution: the Case for a British
Republic, which was adapted into a TV series for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ TWO in 2000.
Roly
Keating, the Controller of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ FOUR said: "Jonathan is a fine
journalist and a natural broadcaster.
"He's
the ideal person to build on Andrew Marr's remarkable achievement
in establishing the Talk Show as a unique space for stimulating,
thoughful conversation."
The
Talk Show, is on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ FOUR on Mondays at 8.30pm. Guests have included
Norman Mailer, Martin Amis, Gore Vidal and Kenneth Kaunda.
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