Kirsty Wark on leaving Newsnight, Sports Personality of the Year
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Kirsty Wark joins Emma Barnett to talk about stepping down from Newsnight after 30 years; what she’s planning to fill the extra time with and she also shares some Christmas cooking tips.
A new book, A Heart Afire, paints a picture of paediatrician Helen Taussig who dedicated her life to looking after children with heart defects. We hear from author Patricia Meisol.
We look at the issues of "workplace housework" - tasks like organising office Christmas parties, sorting the secret santa gifts, decorating the communal spaces - with economist Lise Vasterlund and comedian Cally Beaton.
Could a woman win the BBC's annual Sports Personality Of The Year award later today? Now in it's 70th year, we talk to Lady Mary Peters who won the gong in 1972 – the same year she won gold in the pentathlon at the Munich Olympics.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Neva Missirian
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womanza from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the programme, my last, incidentally, before Christmas. |
| 0:43.4 | So just as well, we have my former colleague and News Night Legend, |
| 0:46.4 | Kirstie Wark on the programme, with whom I will definitely talk news and journalism, |
| 0:50.6 | but as a keen cook and someone who makes a mean cocktail, I'm promised some vital |
| 0:54.7 | information from Kirstie Walk about vodka tomatoes at Christmas. |
| 0:59.7 | All that to come, ahead of the 70th BBC Sports Personality of the Year |
| 1:04.3 | award this evening I will be joined by Lady Mary Peters who won it in 1972 that was |
| 1:09.6 | the same year she won gold in the pentathlon at the Munich Olympics aged 33 and working as a secretary |
| 1:16.0 | pretty much full-time alongside training to be an athlete. Plus the story of the groundbreaking doctor |
| 1:21.6 | who changed our lives with her curiosity. of the I'll probably do what she says because that's what's a good rule for life with Kirstie Walk. What's your speciality that perhaps make people wrinkle their nose |
| 1:37.2 | at but then come to love? If possible I will try to make 848-44 your |
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