Kirsty Lang

Kirsty Lang (born 1962) is a British journalist and broadcaster who works for BBC
Radio and Television. Earlier in her career, she was on the staff of The Sunday Times and
Channel 4 News, working as a presenter and reporter. Lang was a visiting professor at
Columbia University in New York for several months at the beginning of 2012 and sits
on the board of the British Council.

Career
Lang was raised in various parts of the world; her family were evacuated from Nigeria at
the time of the Biafran war in 1967. Lang 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. She
first joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1986, having gained an MA in Journalism
from City University, London[1] following a degree in International Relations and an
MSc in Government and Politics from the London School of Economics. In 1989 she
Lang at the Financial Times 125th
became a Central European correspondent for the World Service and later a reporter on
Anniversary Party, London, in
the BBC's Newsnight. June 2013

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 BBC when the digital channel BBC Four was established in
2002 and has presentedThe World, an evening news programme, and its replacementWorld News Today.

Lang 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 theToday programme and The World at One.[2]

From January to April 2012, Lang 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 BBC 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
.

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

Personal life
Lang is married to the journalist and Balkans specialist Misha Glenny with whom she has a son and two stepchildren.[3] She is, by
her own account, "mildlydyslexic".[4]

References
1. Kirsty Lang interview (http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/q-and-a/qa-kirsty-lang)TV Newsroom, c2005; Retrieved 10 February
2009
2. "Kirsty Lang" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/people/presenters/kirsty-lang/), BBC Radio
3. Misha Glenny "My family values" (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/28/family-values), The
Guardian, 28 February 2009
4. "Kirsty Lang bio" (http://www.speakers4schools.org/speakers/167693/KirstyLang), Speakers for Schools
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