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Kirsteen Anne "Kirsty" Wark (born 3 May 1955) is a Scottish journalist and television presenter, best known for fronting the BBC Two's news and current affairs programme ''Newsnight'' since 1993, and its weekly arts spin-off ''Newsnight Review'' (later ''The Review Show'') from 2002 to 2014. ==Biography== Wark was born in Dumfries to Jimmy Wark, a solicitor, and Roberta Wark, a schoolteacher. Wark was educated at Kilmarnock Grammar Primary and subsequently Ayr's independent Wellington School. After studying history at the University of Edinburgh, Wark joined the BBC in 1976 as a graduate researcher for BBC Radio Scotland, before promotion a year later as producer of ''Good Morning Scotland'' and current affairs programmes.〔(Ayrshire Arts Archive – South West Galleries Association Project )〕 Wark switched to television in 1982, producing BBC Scotland's lunchtime political programme ''Agenda'' and current affairs series ''Current Account''. After a stint as a news editor for ''Reporting Scotland'', she moved into presenting, fronting ''Seven Days'' and ''Left, Right and Centre'' 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 Lockerbie disaster. In 1990, Wark demonstrated her distinctive line of questioning in an interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Wark was a presenter on BBC2 arts programme ''The Late Show'' (from 1990–3) and the heritage programme ''One Foot in the Past''. She has been a presenter on the BBC programme ''Newsnight'' since 1993. She married the 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 Muriel Gray's Ideal World to form IWC Media. In December 2005, Wark and Gray severed their connections with (IWC Media ) after RDF Media bought the company. Wark hosted the 10th annual Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards on Friday 30 November 2007 for STV. She replaced David Baddiel as host of the BBC Four programme ''The Book Quiz'' in 2008 and hosts a BBC Two quiz show, ''A Question of Genius'', which started in March 2009. 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. In June 2006 she interviewed Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter.〔 〕 She made a cameo appearance in the 2008 ''Doctor Who'' episode "The Poison Sky". In 2006, she presented a series of programmes on BBC television about countries on the continent entitled ''Tales from Old Europe''. Wark participated in the 2011 series of Celebrity MasterChef where she reached the final and narrowly lost out to Phil Vickery. On 1 January 2012, Wark will appear in a cameo role as herself in the revival of the BBC's ''Absolutely Fabulous''. In January 2013 she appeared in a special series of ''The Great British Bake Off''. She was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by the ''Guardian'' in March 2013. Later that year, she made a cameo appearance in two episodes of ''The Politician's Husband'' which aired on BBC2. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kirsty Wark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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