Kirsty Wark is to be honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship on the 2025 BAFTA Tv Awards with P+O Cruises.
The previous ‘Newsnight’ presenter will obtain BAFTA’s highest accolade in honour of her profession in TV at this 12 months’s ceremony on Sunday 11 Might.
Kirsty, 70, hosted ‘Newsnight’ for over 30 years till her departure in 2024 and held politicians and public figures to account together with her formidable interviews throughout her time on the present affairs programme.
She made her identify as a journalist and producer for BBC Scotland and was one of many first TV reporters on the scene to cowl the Lockerbie catastrophe in 1988 – when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up within the skies above the Scottish city.
Wark then famously locked horns with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a 1990 interview that put her into the nationwide consciousness.
Kirsty has introduced each arts and present affairs programmes for the BBC, internet hosting ‘The Overview Present’ for greater than a decade together with a plethora of BBC Arts sequence and documentaries.
Throughout her time on the small display, she has encountered stars together with Madonna, Harold Pinter and George Clooney.
Wark continues to current arts programmes on each TV and radio, comparable to ‘The Ladies Who Modified Fashionable Scotland’ and particular episodes of ‘Panorama’.
Kirsty stated: “It is a great shock and an amazing honour. Tv has been my residence for forty years, each on the BBC and in Unbiased Manufacturing, and I proceed to be taught daily from individuals with awe-inspiring expertise who’ve grow to be treasured colleagues and pricey associates. Thanks, BAFTA!”
Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA, stated: “I’m past delighted to current this 12 months’s BAFTA Fellowship to Kirsty Wark.
“Kirsty’s dedication is unwavering in terms of telling the tales that actually matter. Her legacy is unmatched on the planet of stories and present affairs broadcasting.
“Her capability to tell and have interaction her readers, listeners and viewers is actually inspiring. And she or he does all this with huge appeal and wit.
“We’re thrilled to have fun her continued and lasting influence on the trade and past.”