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

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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In 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.