Kirsty Lang

Kirsty Lang is a broadcaster and arts journalist. She currently presents Round Britain Quiz and Last Word on BBC Radio 4 and was the host of Radio 4’s flagship arts magazine show, Front Row, for almost 20 years. Kirsty has previously chaired The Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and the EBRD prize for Foreign Fiction translated into English. She is an in-demand moderator at book festivals including Edinburgh, Cheltenham and Hay and chairs two boards, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead and the environmental NGO, Global Witness. She is also a member of the advisory council of Hay Festivals.