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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Kirsty Young to anchor Queen’s platinum jubilee coverage on BBC

Kirsty Young
Kirsty Young stepped back from BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2018. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex/Shutterstock

The radio and TV presenter Kirsty Young will return to the BBC for the first time since 2018 to lead the broadcaster’s platinum jubilee coverage.

Young, who presented BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs for 12 years, stepped back from the programme in August 2018 because she had a form of fibromyalgia, a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body.

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