Martha Kearney hosting her last BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA) Martha Kearney has said she is “hugely excited” to move to the world of nature shows after signing off from BBC Radio 4’s Today programme for the last time. 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.
We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. 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.
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” In the new interview series, Kearney will explore how nature has become an important part of the guest’s life. Alongside Blanchett, her first guests include wildlife cameraman and Strictly star Hamza Yassin, actor and director Martin Clunes, chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and nature writer Richard Mabey. Ke.