Emma Barnett to join BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

‘I will greatly miss being within the rare and unique space Woman’s Hour provides,’ said Barnett, thanking the show’s ‘mighty army of listeners’. Photograph: Lia Toby/PA

Emma Barnett, the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, will join the Today programme from May.

Barnett, who had been tipped for the role with the BBC’s flagship morning radio show after Martha Kearney announced last month she was to step down, said she was “delighted to be joining a programme that occupies such a unique space in British life”.