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Kirsty Lang

Kirsty Lang is a familiar voice on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 and one of Britain’s most respected and experienced journalists and broadcasters.

Her ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ career began in 1986, and she worked as Central Europe correspondent for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.