Kirsty Wark: Interview virtuoso and Newsnight’s longest serving presenter

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Kirsty Wark: Interview virtuoso and Newsnight’s longest serving presenter
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The journalist has interviewed a variety of prominent politicians and cultural figures including former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

Kirsty Wark is recognised as the longest serving presenter of Newsnight, a BBC programme providing coverage of national and international news.

Wark has interviewed a variety of prominent politicians and cultural figures including former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Australian author Germaine Greer, Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker and The Libertines’ Pete Doherty.Wark began her career at the BBC when she was accepted into the broadcaster’s graduate trainee scheme in the 1970s.

She worked as a producer on Reporting Scotland and went on to host the current affairs weekly Seven Days before she joined Newsnight in 1993 as a presenter.The BBC axed long-running arts programme The Review Show in 2018, which had been on air in different formats for more than 20 years and was also presented by Martha Kearney along with Wark.

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