Kirsty Lang

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Kirsty Lang (born 1962) is a British journalist and broadcaster currently working for the BBC.

Lang first joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1986, having gained a PG Dip in Periodical Journalism from City University, London following a degree in modern languages^{[citation needed]}. In 1989 she became a Central European correspondent for the World Service and later a reporter on the BBCs Newsnight. After a spell as a member of a team working in Paris for The Sunday Times, she became a co-presenter/reporter for Channel 4 News (1998-2002). She returned to the BBC when the digital channel BBC Four was established in 2002 and has presented The World, an evening news programme.

Kirsty Lang is a regular presenter of Radio Four's Front Row and has also been a stand-in anchor for The World Tonight and other programmes. She also contributes, on occasion, to various publications.

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• "The Baby I Just Had to Have", Evening Standard, February 13, 2006 - autobiographical article on single motherhood