Kirsty Wark

Kirsty Wark

Birth : 1955-02-03, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK

History

Kirsteen Anne "Kirsty" Wark FRSE is a British journalist and television presenter, best known for fronting BBC Two's news and current affairs programme Newsnight since 1993, and its weekly arts spin-off Newsnight Review from 2002 to 2014. Wark was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2017.

Profile

Kirsty Wark
Kirsty Wark
Kirsty Wark

Movies

Bridget Riley: Painting the Line
Herself - Interviewer
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, seldom-seen footage from the archives and a rare interview with Kirsty Wark, this is the story of a true visionary of British art.
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Herself
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Kirsty Wark
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
Narrator
The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.