Emma Barnett tipped for Today presenter job after Martha Kearney steps down

Woman’s Hour host is frontrunner for BBC’s morning current affairs show after Kearney announces departure

Emma Barnett, of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, is the frontrunner to become the new presenter of the Today programme after Martha Kearney announced she was to step down.

On Monday, Kearney, 66, said she would leave the flagship show after the next general election, and would begin presenting episodes of Radio 4’s countryside magazine programme Open Country as well as This Natural Life, a new interview series celebrating the natural world, later in 2024.