2: The Kay Burley One

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  • 7 November 2019

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Kay Burley is one of the longest standing news presenters of our times. Kay’s reporting career began aged 17 on the Wigan Evening Post & Chroncile. Since then Kay’s built a reputation as a tough, rigorous political journalist, and a face of Sky News. Kay has recently started presenting her own breakfast show, with her own name in it, and in the three weeks this show has been on air Kay has already gone viral three times for putting politicians in their place!

In this episode we discuss women in news, plastic surgery, Succession, and presenting the news in your 80s. 


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