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Kirsteen Anne "Kirsty" Wark
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(born 3 February 1955) is a Scottish television presenter with a long career at the BBC. Starting on Radio Scotland, where she became a producer, Wark switched to television, presenting The Late Show and Newsnight, as well as hosting her own interview programme and launching a production company. Her activities have included reporting on the Lockerbie bombings, hosting a book quiz and encouraging open discussion of
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. In The Great British Bake Off, she qualified as Star Baker. Wark’s powerful, searching interview style and perceived closeness to Labour Party figures have provoked controversy. She was named journalist of the year by BAFTA Scotland in 1993 and Best Television Presenter in 1997.


Early life

Wark was born in
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, Scotland, to Jimmy Wark, a solicitor, and Roberta Wark, a schoolteacher. Her father served in the Second Battalion of the
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during the
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and was awarded a
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for heroism during the
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. Wark was educated at Kilmarnock Grammar Primary and subsequently
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's independent Wellington School. She studied history, specifically Scottish Studies, at the
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.


Television and radio career

Wark joined the
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in 1976 as a graduate researcher for
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, before promotion a year later as producer of ''
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'' and current affairs programmes. Wark switched to television in 1982, producing ''Reporting Scotland'' and the lunchtime political programme ''
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'' and current affairs series ''Current Account''. She then moved into presenting, fronting ''Reporting Scotland'', ''Seven Days'', ''Left, Right and Centre'' and ''Scottish Questions'' coverage for BBC Scotland, before moving to network television as part of the '' Breakfast Time'' presenting team. In 1988, she was one of the first reporters to cover the
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. In 1990, Wark demonstrated her distinctive line of questioning in an interview with Prime Minister
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. Wark was a presenter on BBC2 arts programme ''
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'' (from 1990–3) and the heritage programme ''
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''. In 1999, she presented ''The Kirsty Wark Show'', her own interview programme. Wark has been a presenter on the BBC programme ''Newsnight'' since 1993. During the 1990s, she presented many programmes produced by her production company Wark Clements & Co, including ''Words With Wark'', ''Restless Nation'', ''Building A Nation'' and ''Lives Less Ordinary''. In 2006, she presented a series of programmes on BBC television about countries on the continent entitled ''Tales from Old Europe''. In June 2006 she interviewed
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. Wark hosted the 10th annual
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on 30 November 2007 for STV. She made a cameo appearance in the 2008 ''
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'' episode "
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". She replaced
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as host of the
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programme ''
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'' in 2008 and hosted a
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quiz show, ''
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'', which ran from 2009 to 2010. In 2011 she was chosen to host a BBC food quiz show entitled ''A Question of Taste,'' pitting two teams of food fanatics against one another. Wark participated in the 2011 series of
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where she reached the final and narrowly lost out to Phil Vickery. On 1 January 2012, Wark appeared in a cameo role as herself in the revival of the BBC's ''
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''. In January 2013 she appeared in a special series of ''
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'', where she was awarded Star Baker. Later that year, she made a cameo appearance in two episodes of ''
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'' which aired on BBC Two. Wark has been visible and vocal in the media about her experience of menopause and helped to raise awareness of this aspect of women's health more widely. In 2017 she made a BBC documentary 'Let's talk about the menopause' because she felt that women are still "shockingly ill-informed." In 2018,
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, the
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journalist who interviewed the two Russian suspects of the
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terminated an interview with Wark. It came after Wark challenged "the manner of the interview" and asked if the interview didn't just reinforce the notion that RT was a 'propaganda tool of the Russian state.' Simonyan said Wark's questions seemed "like typical Western propaganda." Since 2020, she has presented the
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series '' The Reunion''. She has also, on occasion, presented ''
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'' on BBC Radio 4. In 2021, Wark was one of the main presenters of the BBC's election results coverage, alongside
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. She presented from Edinburgh with the programme covering results from all the UK elections that took place on Thursday 6 May 2021, including the
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and local council elections in England.


Honours and awards

Wark was named journalist of the year by BAFTA Scotland in 1993 and Best Television Presenter in 1997. She was also nominated for the prestigious Richard Dimbleby Award for Best Television Presenter (Factual, Features and News) in the BAFTAS 2000. She was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by ''
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'' in March 2013. Wark was elected a Fellow of the
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in March 2017.


Public controversies

Wark is regarded as being close to the Labour Party.
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, Scottish Labour politician and former
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, a close friend, appointed her to the
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Design Selection Panel, which chose
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' design for the new parliament. Questioned by the Fraser Inquiry, set up to investigate the building's cost overruns, she said: "There was no way that we were making a decision on economically the most advantageous tender; you would have ended up with a shed . . . it was
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getting a building which was the most exciting, innovative building . . ." In 2003, Wark-Clements produced a film on the building, with critics accusing Wark of a conflict of interest. In January 2005, she invited
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MSP
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, then Scotland's First Minister, and his family to stay at her
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n holiday home over the New Year period. McConnell, a long-time friend of Wark and husband Clements before holding office, was cleared of any improprieties when the
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's Standards Committee deemed he received no financial benefits from the holidays. Wark's editor on ''Newsnight'' offered his support, stating "Many people in the media have friends who have gone on to hold office. The important issue is your ability to ask tough questions and that is not a problem with Kirsty Wark or anybody else on the programme." Wark and Clements were the subject of media coverage regarding his use of Wark's former PA to monitor e-mails covertly at
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after he left following an acrimonious dispute about a non-compete deal. In June 2007, Wark clashed with Scottish
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in an interview, over his response to a memorandum of understanding between the
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and
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regarding prisoner exchanges. Salmond feared that this could include
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, who was convicted by a Scottish court in the Netherlands for the 1988 bombing of
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over
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. The BBC received 120 formal complaints, and issued a public apology to Salmond regretting Wark's "rude and dismissive" tone; Salmond accepted the BBC's apology. According to the BBC, viewers questioned the premise of the interview and that Wark's line of questioning was too aggressive and therefore discourteous. According to ''Newsnight'' editor Peter Barron, time constraints forced Wark to end the questioning abruptly, leading him to perceive her behaviour as "rude and dismissive". In October 2013, Wark interviewed ''Guardian'' journalist
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about his reporting of the
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and
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cyber-spying programs leaked by
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. The interview was seen as openly hostile in which "Wark unabashedly made the case for the prosecution, interrogating Greenwald about his reporting and Edward Snowden." Greenwald later wrote that Wark and other journalists have focused "almost entirely on the process questions surrounding the reporting rather than the substance of the revelations" about NSA surveillance and privacy invasions "and in the process made some quite dubious claims that come straight from the mouths of government officials". On 3 November 2016,
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, a
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MP, argued in an
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for a return to the broadcasting of the national anthem (named "God Save the Queen") at the end of
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transmissions each day (The practice was dropped in 1997, ostensibly due to BBC One adopting 24-hour broadcasting by simulcasting
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overnight, rendering closedown obsolete), to commemorate the Brexit vote and Britain's subsequent withdrawing from the
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. At the evening of the same day,
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's ''
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'' programme ended its nightly broadcast with host of that night Kirsty Wark saying that they were "incredibly happy to oblige" Rosindell's request, and then played a clip of the Sex Pistols' similarly named song, much to Rosindell's discontent. Wark attracted further controversy in relation to Alex Salmond in 2020. She presented a documentary about Salmond's
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on sexual assault charges, for which he was acquitted. The documentary aired several months after the end of the trial and featured both supporters and detractors of Alex Salmond reflecting on the case. Some of the women who accused Salmond spoke about the case for the first time. The programme received over 900 complaints from those who believed it was biased against Salmond. The BBC said that the outcome of the trial was "fairly reflected in the programme", with the programme aiming to look at the wider political consequences of the case rather than rerunning Salmond's trial. The BBC also said that Salmond had been asked to take part in the programme but had refused. The BBC said the programme contained
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and
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, who were supporters of Salmond. A later news story said that Salmond was considering taking legal action against the BBC, and possibly against Wark.


Books

Wark has written two novels, ''The Legacy Of Elizabeth Pringle'' and ''The House By The Loch''.


Personal life

Wark married television producer Alan Clements (born 1961) in September 1989, after meeting on the BBC Scotland programme ''Left, Right, and Centre''. They have a daughter (born 1990) and a son (born 1992). They founded independent TV production company Wark-Clements in 1990, which in May 2004 was merged with fellow Scots broadcaster
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's Ideal World to form IWC Media. In December 2005, Wark and Gray severed their connections with IWC Media after
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bought the company.


References


External links

* *
Biography at her agent's website

Wark's BBC Profile

''Observer'' profile January 9 2005

''Telegraph'' profile January 9 2005
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