Former Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young, who fronted the BBC Radio 4 show for 12 years, was forced to step down from her job due to ill health back in 2018
Kirsty Young has suggested that the BBC has opted against referring to Hamas as terrorists in its news coverage for fear of losing access to the group.Young, a
The Scottish presenter, who has been a Desert Island Discs and Crimewatch presenter for the BBC, praised the broadcaster s coverage of the Middle East war.
I thought of this when I heard that the broadcaster Kirsty Young had said, on a recent podcast, that she wished she’d had a wilder adolescence. “I didn’t rebel as a teenager,” she said. “I was a good girl. So probably I would tell myself to do the drugs, shag the guy”
At school, I was one of the good girls. Shoes polished, hand straight in the air at a question. So I felt a chime of recognition when Kirsty Young said this week that she, too, was a good girl .