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Martha Kearney presents The World At One on Radio Four and The Review Show on BBC2.
Martha has developed a reputation as one of the BBC’s most respected political journalists. She joined Newsnight in 1994, having previously been a reporter for BBC1’s On the Record, since 1988. She has also reported for Panorama.
In 2011 Martha presented Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? a gripping BBC2 documentary in which Martha joins Austen biographer Paula Byrne on her quest to verify the authenticity of a possible portrait of the author through forensic analysis and scrutiny by art historians and world leading Austen experts.
Being a dedicated apiarist herself, Martha fronted a BBC4 documentary about the desperate plight of the bee. Who Killed The Honey Bee? aired in 2009.
She began her journalistic career in radio, and worked as Lobby correspondent for LBC/IRN, before joining Channel Four TV’s respected Week in Politics team. She became political editor of Newsnight in 2000. She presented Woman's Hour on Radio Four from 1998 to 2007.
In 2001 Martha won the Sony Radio Bronze award. In 1998 she was nominated for a BAFTA for her coverage of the Northern Ireland peace process.
In December 2005 she was named Political Commentator of the Year by the House Magazine, voted for by MPs and Peers.
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