# Kirsty Wark

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Legendary Journalist Kirsty Wark

She was a fixture on our TV screens for thirty years on the BBC primarily presenting Newsnight and she's coming to the Hinterland festival in Kells - Kirsty Wark in conversation with Gerry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Old Newscast: How Labour Won In 1997 (Part 1)

Today, we start the first of six Old Newscasts looking at the story of 30 years of British Politics through six votes. We start in 1997, when the Prime Minister John Major called an election, hoping to extend 18 years of Conservative rule, and beat Labour’s Tony Blair . To help us, we have two BBC…

Old Newscast: How Labour Won In 1997 (Part 2)

Today, we start the first of six Old Newscasts looking at the story of 30 years of British Politics through six votes. We start in 1997, when the Prime Minister John Major called an election, hoping to extend 18 years of Conservative rule, and beat Labour’s Tony Blair . To help us, we have two BBC…

Andy Burnham's Emergency Cobra Meeting On Extreme Heat

Today, we look at the government’s response to extreme heat, and fires around the country, as he chairs a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee, as temperatures are set to soar again. Firefighters are continuing to tackle a wildfire in the New Forest, Hampshire, which started on Sun…

The Reunion: The 9/11 Attacks

On 11 September 2001, suicide attackers hijacked two passenger planes flying over the eastern United States and crashed them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, causing both buildings to collapse. The attack killed 2,753 people. As smoke billowed from the burning towers, fir…

The Proclaimers on their new album, You May Offend

Twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid emerged almost 40 years ago with their debut album This Is The Story and Top 3 single ‘Letter from America’. The Proclaimers join Kirsty Wark to discuss their new album, the ambiguously titled, You May Offend. Novelist Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread Book of the…

Review Show: Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel, South Korean alien invasion thriller Hope and an adaptation of 1984.

In this week's Review Show, our guest critics Hannah McGill and Fergus Morgan join Kirsty Wark to discuss three dystopian thrillers: Bestselling novelist Emily St John Mandel's latest work of speculative fiction, Exit Party, chronicles how a range of characters respond to a complete collapse in so…

Women With Balls: Kirsty Wark

Kirsty Wark has worked for the BBC for almost 50 years and is one of the UK’s most recognisable broadcasters. In 1976 she joined BBC Radio Scotland as a graduate researcher. Having produced and presented several shows across radio including The World At One and PM, she switched to television, and w…