Janet Street Porter

Janet Street Porter appears regularly on TV shows on all the major channels. She was  the Editor on Deadline, a celebrity series for ITV2 back in 2007 and was regular contributor with Gordon Ramsay in The F Word for Channel 4. She appeared in Call me a Cabbie on ITV1 and So You Think You Can Nurse for Five as well as Coming Home for BBC Wales. She also completed a pilot based on the second volume of her memoirs, Fallout, published in paperback by Headline.

In 2004 she appeared in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! for ITV and So You Think You can Teach for Five. In 2005 she wrote and presented two documentaries for Sky Television entitled Janet Saves The Monarchy and another, shot in the USA, entitled Michael and Me about the director Michael Moore. In 2005 she co-presented TV on Trial for BBC3 and a series entitled Demolition about bad architecture for Channel 4. She presented a documentary Desperate Women about women in the media for Channel 4, and BBC3 showed her documentary My Childhood in February 2006. She has regularly appeared on political programmes – Question Time and This Week and The Daily Politics as well as entertainment series like Grumpy Old Women and the Paul O’Grady Show. In 2007 she has presented a regular slot on GMTV, with Lorraine Kelly.

Her career in broadcasting started In 1973 hosting a daily show on Britain’s first commercial radio station, LBC, switching to television in 1975, a young people’s current affairs programme for LWT. She presented a range of prime time shows including her own talk show, before becoming a producer in 1981, and gaining a BAFTA nomination with Twentieth Century Box. She won the BAFTA award for originality for creating the ground breaking series Network 7 in 1988.

Janet joined the BBC and created a host of new formats for young people, Rough Guide to Careers, the A to Z of Belief, Reportage, and devised and produced The Full Wax with Ruby Wax. Her reworking of the German romantic opera the Vampyr won the Prix Italia in 1992 and received an Emmy nomination as well as a Classical Music Award. As a BBC executive she was responsible for about 35 series from This Is Your Life to Fantasy Football League. In 1994 she joined the Mirror Group and set up Live TV, building the UK’s first digital television studios.

Since 1996 she has presented a wide range of television series – the Design Awards, Travels with Pevsner, two walking series (Coast to Coast and As the Crow Flies), Cathedral Calls and hosted the weekly political programme The Midnight Hour, all for the BBC. She presented the first critique of the internet, J’Accuse for Channel 4. Janet has been a travel writer for the Observer and The Mail On Sunday, as well as restaurant critic for Vogue, and wrote a regular walking column for the Sunday Times. Her books include Scandal, (Allen Lane 1981) and The British Teapot (Angus and Robertson 1981), two books about walking and a best-selling volume of childhood memoirs, Baggage, (Headline 2004).

For two years she was the Editor of the Independent On Sunday, a role she relinquished in 2001 to become Editor at Large, presently writing two comment columns a week for The Independent and the Independent on Sunday, as well as contributing features about travel.

For three years from 2002 she conducted hundreds of interviews for Bloomberg Television, focusing on major media players and figures from the arts, transmitted in over 20 countries. In 2003 she wrote and presented an acclaimed one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival entitled All The Rage, and toured this show in the UK in Spring 2004 and 2005.

Janet Street-Porter studied architecture at the Architectural Association and switched to journalism becoming a Fleet Street columnist and fashion writer by the age of 21. She wrote about design and architecture for the glossies at the same time: Architectural Design, Design Magazine, Harpers and Queen and Vogue.

Janet is Vice President of the Ramblers Association and judged the Living Bridges Competition for the Royal Academy in 1996 and the Building of the Year for the Royal Fine Art Commission, in 1998. She has been a board member of the Opera Factory, is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. She is President of the Globetrotters club and Patron of the Clerkenwell Green Association. She writes celebrity interviews each month for Marie Claire magazine and Quadrille books are publishing her guide to Life in January 2008.