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  Sunday

  10:30-11:00

  Radio Scotland

  Stark Talk

  Edi Stark presents the Sony Award winning Stark Talk

  Visit the Stark Talk pages to listen to the most recent show

She was educated at Sciennes and James Gillespie’s in Edinburgh before graduating with honours from Aberdeen University. Having decided that English literature was a subject she liked too much to teach within an exam-based curriculum, she qualified as a librarian at Robert Gordon’s Institute of technology. For two years, she established multi media resource centres in the Gorbals, Glasgow and Deans Community High School in Livingston. Marriage brought her back to Aberdeen where the schools’ library service considered her ‘too progressive’ for employment and with some regret, she applied to the independent radio station which was not yet ‘on air’. Northsound, it soon became apparent, did not need a librarian but the managing director liked her voice. Her career in broadcasting had begun.

After eight years as community co-ordinator, producer and head of speech programmes, Edi went freelance which means she has a more flexible working life as a mother. She has not yet mastered the balancing trick of juggling domestic and professional responsibility but considers herself privileged to be able to work from home.

In 1999, she established her own independent radio company, Stark Productions, which produces the weekly conversation series Stark Talk for BBC Radio Scotland. In the most coveted national Sony Radio Academy awards, Edi has won Gold for best speech programme in the UK and Silver and bronze for best speech broadcaster in the UK.

She lists her hobbies as being able to sit down.