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Kirsty Young
Kirsty Young is one of the country’s top newscasters. She returned to Five on January 14, 2002 as the station’s main news anchor presenting Five News 5.30pm and 7.00pm bulletins.
Programmes on Five
Since rejoining Five, Kirsty has presented a number of news specials and documentaries for the channel. They include Meet The Prime Minister, documentaries on HRH Zara Phillipsand King Constantine of Greece, Are Your Kids on Drugs, The MMR Debate, The Annual Science Museum/FIVE Science Debate, The Police Bravery Awards. She also recently hosted the Big Ideas Philosophy Launch with Professor Germaine Greer.
Desert Island Discs and other Radio
Kirsty started as the new presenter of the long-running BBC Radio Four programme Desert Island Discs in October 2006. In recent years she has stood in regularly for Michael Parkinson and Jeremy Vine on their BBC Radio 2 Shows and has regularly hosted BBC2's Have I Got News For You on BBC2. In 2004 she was a guest on Room 101 also on BBC2.
Kirsty's Television Career
In her two years away from Five, Kirsty presented ITV’s News at Ten, ITV Evening News and Lunchtime News. She was the sole-anchor for the live coverage of 9/11 for five hours for ITV. She also hosted a range of primetime programmes for the network including Rat Trap, The People Versus and What will They Think of Next?
Kirsty was the launch presenter for Five's groundbreaking Five News in 1997, and during her time as Five News presenter, she received the prestigious Sir James Carreras Award for Outstanding New Talent of 1997 at the 46th Variety Club Showbusiness Awards. A month later, in March 1998, she was named Newscaster of the Year at the TRIC (Television & Radio Industries Club) Awards. The programme itself won a Royal Television Society prize, collecting the Team Award at the 1997 RTS Craft & Design Awards. Acclaimed as one of television's leading talents, Kirsty fronted Five News every weekday evening, conducting live studio interviews and reporting on the day's main issues. She also presented various news and current affairs specials for Five.
From January to September 1998, she co-hosted Talk Radio's weekday breakfast programme.
In the Beginning
Kirsty Young's journalistic career began in 1989 as a newsreader for BBC Radio Scotland where she also presented its Drivetime show. In 1992 she moved to Scottish Television where she was the presenter of Scotland Today at Lunchtime and Scotland Today - the channel's midday and evening news programmes.
From 1994-95 she was the host of Kirsty, a bi-weekly live discussion programme on the week's hot topics, on STV. For STV she also presented Late Edition, a live, late-night entertainment and music show. Her BBC credits include presenting and reporting for Holidays Out, Holiday `96 and Film `96 on BBC1, and presenting BBC2's consumer affairs show, The Street. Kirsty was born in Glasgow, Scotland and brought up in Stirling, Scotland from the age of 8. She is married and has two daughters Freya and Iona.
Crimewatch
Kirsty has recently been announced as the new host of Crimewatch on the BBC
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