Jane Little

Jane Little is a writer and broadcaster who combines specialist reporting on religion with a wide brief as presenter. She regularly sits in the chair of Woman's Hour, Sunday, Last Word, and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4. She also works as Religion Editor for the BBC-WGBH-PRI co-production, The World.

Jane was born and raised in Kendal, Cumbria. She read Theology and Religious Studies at King's College, Cambridge, and went on to Harvard University, where she studied the relationship between religion and politics in the US, a subject she has written and reported on for more than a decade. From 2006-2008 she was a BBC Washington Correspondent.

Jane started her career at BBC Radio Newcastle and then worked as a producer and reporter on The World at WGBH Boston, after which she returned to the UK to create the post of Religious Affairs Correspondent at the BBC World Service. During several years there she reported from many parts of the globe on developments within religious traditions as well as covering large numbers of stories where religion intersects with politics.