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Kirsty Wark joined BBC TWO's Newsnight in October 1993.
She presents the BBC TWO flagship current affairs programme alongside
Jeremy Paxman and Gavin
Esler.
Kirsty also regularly presents Newsnight Review.
Kirsty began her BBC career at BBC Radio Scotland in 1976
as a graduate researcher, going on to become a producer in radio current
affairs.
After a spell on BBC Radio 4's The World At One, Kirsty
moved to television in 1983 - working as a producer on Reporting Scotland
and later producing and presenting the current affairs weekly Seven
Days.
Kirsty has interviewed many top politicians including
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Her most memorable interview was in 1990 when she conducted
a headline-making interview with the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
Kirsty has presented Scotland's General Election coverage
since 1987 and several major OBs including the opening of the Tate Modern
and the Opening of the Scottish Parliament.
From 1990 to 1993 she presented the arts programme The
Late Show and in 1993 fronted the popular BBC heritage series One Foot
In The Past - a role she continued into 2000.
Kirsty also presents an occasional series of interviews
for BBC FOUR with guests as wide ranging as Toni Morrison, Hanan Ashrawi
and Woody Allen, and presents the prestigious Booker literary awards
for BBC TWO and BBC FOUR.
In 1990 she formed the independent television production
company Wark Clements & Co with Alan Clements, now IWC Media following
a merger with Ideal World.
She has presented a number of series the company has
made for the BBC including Words With Wark, Restless Nation, Building
A Nation, The Kirsty Wark Show, Lives Less Ordinary and her latest series
Tales From Europe.
Kirsty was named journalist of the year by Bafta Scotland
in 1993 and Best Television Presenter in 1997.
She was chosen as Scot of the Year 1998 - sponsored
by Scotland On Sunday and Glenfiddich - and was awarded the 1999 News
and Current Affairs prize by Carlton Women in Film and Television.
Kirsty was also nominated for the prestigious Richard
Dimbleby Award for Best Television Presenter (Factual, Features and
News) in the Baftas in 2000.
Kirsty Wark was born in Dumfries in 1955 and
educated at Wellington School, Ayr, Stirling University and Edinburgh
University.
She is married to the independent producer Alan Clements
and they have two children.
