Kirsty Language

1962

Earlier in her career, was on the staff of The Sunday Times and Channel 4 News, working as a presenter and reporter. Language was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York for several months at the beginning of 2012. Language was raised in various parts of the world. Her family were evacuated from Nigeria at the time of the Biafran war in 1967. She first joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a graduate trainee in 1986, having gained an Master of Arts in Journalism from City University, London following a degree in International Relations and an Master of Science in Government and Politics from the London School of Economics. In 1989 she became a Central European correspondent for the World Service and later a reporter on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Newsnight. After a spell as Paris correspondent for The Sunday Times, she became a co-presenter/reporter for Channel 4 News (1998-2002). She returned to the British Broadcasting Corporation when the digital channel British Broadcasting Corporation Four was established in 2002 and has presented The World, an evening news programme and the replacement World News Today. Language is a regular presenter of a nightly arts and culture programme Radio Four"s Front Row and has also been a stand-in anchor for The World Tonight and other programmes. She used to appear on the Today programme and The World at One. From January to April 2012, Language was a visiting professor at Columbia University, New York City in the School of International and Public Affairs. From 19 November to 23 November 2012, she was one of the two co-presenters of "On the French Fringe", a programme broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Four at 1:45 p.m. about life in France, looking at how activities in France such as films or cartoons had caught the national psyche in that country.

Kirsty Language

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Language was educated at private schools including Nishimachi International School in Tokyo, Lauriston Girls" School in Melbourne, Dartington Hall School in Devon, England and the International School of Geneva.

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Earlier in her career, was on the staff of The Sunday Times and Channel 4 News, working as a presenter and reporter. Language was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York for several months at the beginning of 2012. Language was raised in various parts of the world.

Her family were evacuated from Nigeria at the time of the Biafran war in 1967.

She first joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a graduate trainee in 1986, having gained an Master of Arts in Journalism from City University, London following a degree in International Relations and an Master of Science in Government and Politics from the London School of Economics. In 1989 she became a Central European correspondent for the World Service and later a reporter on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Newsnight.

After a spell as Paris correspondent for The Sunday Times, she became a co-presenter/reporter for Channel 4 News (1998-2002). She returned to the British Broadcasting Corporation when the digital channel British Broadcasting Corporation Four was established in 2002 and has presented The World, an evening news programme and the replacement World News Today.

Language is a regular presenter of a nightly arts and culture programme Radio Four"s Front Row and has also been a stand-in anchor for The World Tonight and other programmes.

She used to appear on the Today programme and The World at One. From January to April 2012, Language was a visiting professor at Columbia University, New York City in the School of International and Public Affairs. From 19 November to 23 November 2012, she was one of the two co-presenters of "On the French Fringe", a programme broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Four at 1:45 p.m. about life in France, looking at how activities in France such as films or cartoons had caught the national psyche in that country.

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Language also contributes, on occasion, to publications including The Times, The Guardian and the Radio Times, and was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2008.

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