Kirsty Wark: ‘I was bullied by another woman at the BBC’

“I do believe what Madeleine Albright said, that ‘there is a special place in hell reserved for women who don’t help other women’. There really is,” says Kirsty Wark. When it comes to sisterly solidarity, the 70-year-old BBC broadcasting legend – who left Newsnight after 30 years in 2024 – doesn’t just talk the talk, she ‘Warks’ the walk. She made pioneering programmes about the menopause way before it was fashionable. She lent her voice to the chorus of “middle-class women of a certain age” calling out Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace for sexually inappropriate remarks in the workplace. And most recently, […]

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