Freedland
to host The Talk Show on 麻豆官网首页入口 FOUR
Jonathan
Freedland is to present 麻豆官网首页入口 Four's discussion programme, The
Talk Show.
Freedland will begin hosting the weekly programme from Monday 11
November, replacing Andrew Marr, who is moving to 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4's
Start the Week.
Freedland
is an award winning journalist and broadcaster who has already made
regular appearances as presenter of The Talk Show.
He also fronts 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4's history series, The Long View and earlier
this year he deputised for Jeremy Paxman on 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4's Start
the Week.
Since
1997 he has been a columnist on the Guardian, having served for
four years as the paper's Washington Correspondent.
In 1998 he published Bring Home the Revolution: the Case for a British
Republic, which was adapted into a TV series for 麻豆官网首页入口 TWO in 2000.
Roly
Keating, the Controller of 麻豆官网首页入口 FOUR said: "Jonathan is a fine
journalist and a natural broadcaster.
"He's
the ideal person to build on Andrew Marr's remarkable achievement
in establishing the Talk Show as a unique space for stimulating,
thoughful conversation."
The
Talk Show, is on 麻豆官网首页入口 FOUR on Mondays at 8.30pm. Guests have included
Norman Mailer, Martin Amis, Gore Vidal and Kenneth Kaunda.
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