To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Fans have flooded Martha Kearney with love after she signed off from BBC Radio 4’s Today programme for the last time today. The broadcaster, 66, said she was ‘hugely excited’ to move to the world of nature shows as she steps away from news. The Irish journalist, who has helmed the station’s flagship morning news programme for six years, is set to host a new interview series, titled This Natural Life, for Radio 4.
Oscar -winning actress Cate Blanchett will be her first guest on the show, which will celebrate nature and the power of the natural world. Kearney said: ‘After more than four decades in the news jungle, I’m escaping to the wild world of nature programmes. ‘I’m hugely excited to be sharing my own passion with some fascinating guests in my new series This Natural Life.
‘Of course I will miss being at the heart of breaking stories, our amazing production team and all the listeners who say they wake up with me. ‘The 3am alarm call..
. not so much.’ Listeners have taken to social media with their appreciation for Martha’s work, as Antonia Seager wrote’ ‘Martha is an amazing broadcaster and journalist.
Very sad to lose her from Today but excited to hear the new nature venture.’ ‘Not a dry eye in the house,’ wrote Daniel Slipper, while Eric Palins said: ‘Thank you Martha.’ Eamonn McGurk called her a ‘class act’, while Today pr.