26-09-2023, 10:12 PM
I think Kirsty Young is a brilliant shout.
I know election night isn’t what it was, but Dimbleby doing it - someone who appeared weekly at most for QT most of the time - made it an event, an occasion, in the way Huw doing it just didn’t really.
Kirsty has proved in these past few years she is an incredible broadcaster, she anchored 9/11 breaking news like the consumate pro she is, and has warmth but sharp questioning when needed (Desert Island Discs proved that).
I know her health needs protecting, but if I were BBC bosses I’d be taking all the ‘Dimbleby roles’ and giving them to her rather than as they had been doing splitting them between her and Huw.
I know election night isn’t what it was, but Dimbleby doing it - someone who appeared weekly at most for QT most of the time - made it an event, an occasion, in the way Huw doing it just didn’t really.
Kirsty has proved in these past few years she is an incredible broadcaster, she anchored 9/11 breaking news like the consumate pro she is, and has warmth but sharp questioning when needed (Desert Island Discs proved that).
I know her health needs protecting, but if I were BBC bosses I’d be taking all the ‘Dimbleby roles’ and giving them to her rather than as they had been doing splitting them between her and Huw.