Journalist, broadcaster, and novelist
Libby Purves worked for some years for BBC Radio 4, as a reporter and a presenter on the Today programme and, since 1983, has presented Midweek. She joined The Times as a columnist in 1990. Purves received an OBE in 1999 for her services to journalism and was Columnist of the Year in the same year. She writes a weekly opinion column for The Times, and has written eleven novels, most recently Shadow Child.
12 Jun 2006
5 min 51 sec
02 Dec 2009
1 min 20 sec
“What hope for the economy?”, featuring Anatole Kaletsky and Gideon Rachman, chaired by Evan Davis, 7th Feb 2012
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"The best chance for peace between Israel and Palestine is for Uncle Sam to butt out”, featuring William Sieghart, 27th Feb 2012
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Rising star historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala on the origins of sex and how the permissive society arrived in Western Europe, 15th Feb
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