Exclusive audio: Janet Street-Porter at the Ilkley Literature Festival


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One of the UK’s best known journalists and broadcasters, Janet talks candidly about her life, her work and her passion for walking and the Yorkshire Dales.
Janet Street-Porter, a regular on ITV’s Loose Women, has spent her career as a noted national columnist. She is a former editor of the Independent on Sunday and former President of the Ramblers’ Association.
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Hide AdIn her new book, Don’t Let the B*****ds Get You Down, Janet Street-Porter navigates through life “with the right attitude” in order to really be in charge.
In a varied career, she helped to launch commercial radio in the UK with a daily show on LBC, and went on to devise and present hundreds of television programmes for ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC. She has won a BAFTA for originality and the Prix Italia for Arts programming. In 2004 Janet wrote and presented a successful one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival, which then toured the UK. She has written two volumes of memoirs, Baggage and Fallout.