Journalist & Former Editor-At-Large for the Independent On Sunday, TV Personality & Panellist on ITV’s ‘Loose Women’, Author & Columnist for Rambler Magazine, Former Vice President of the Ramblers Association & Fellow of the Royal Television Society

Janet Street-Porter has appeared on numerous TV shows. These have included Question Time, This Week, Lily Savage and Have I Got News For You. She currently is on the panel of ITV’s long running daytime show “Loose Women”.

In 2004 Janet appeared in I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! for ITV and So You Think You can Teach for Five. 2005 saw her write and present a two hour long documentaries for Sky Television entitled Janet Saves The Monarchy and another, shot in the UK and the USA, entitled Michael and Me about the director Michael Moore. In 2005 she c0-presented TV on Trial for BBC3 and a series entitled Demolition about architecture for Channel 4.

She wrote and presented a one hour documentary Desperate Women. This was about the role of women in the media. BBC3 showed her documentary My Childhood in 2006. That same year she wrote the second instalment of her memoirs.

In 1973 she hosted a daily show on Britain’s first commercial radio station, LBC. Switching to television in 1975 she was host of the London Weekend Show. This was a young people’s current affairs programme for LWT. She presented a range of prime time shows for LWT. These included her own talk show. In 1981 she became a producer, gaining a BAFTA nomination with Twentieth Century Box. She worked with designers and avant-garde musicians on Paintbox for Channel 4 – and won the BAFTA award for originality for creating the ground breaking series Network 7 in 1998.

Janet Street-Porter 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 produced the Full Wax with Ruby Wax. Her reworking of the German romantic opera the Vampyr won her the Prix Italia in 1992. She also received an Emmy nomination for the Vampyr. Within the entertainment group at the BBC 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 UKs first digital television studios.

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Since 1996 Janet Street-Porter has concentrated on writing and presenting- from the Design Awards, Travels with Pevsner, Coast to Coast for BBC2 and also JAccuse the Internet for Channel 4. She presented the Midnight Hour, a live political discussion, on BBC2 for a year. Her book, Coast to Coast, was published in 1998. Her next walking series As The Crow Flies, was televised in 1999 on BBC2, and she wrote the book of the series, published by Metro. Janet has been a travel writer for the Observer and The Mail On Sunday, as well as restaurant critic for Vogue. She also wrote a walking column for the Sunday Times and currently writes a column for The Rambler magazine. She has written two other books, Scandal, (Allen Lane 1981) and The British Teapot (Angus and Robertson 1981). Janet’s series Cathedral Calls was shown on BBC2 Autumn 1999.

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

Janet conducts interviews for Bloomberg Television, focusing on major media players, which transmit in over 20 countries. Her book about her childhood in working class London, entitled Baggage, was best seller. In 2003 she wrote and presented an acclaimed one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival. This was entitled All The Rage, and toured this show in the UK in Spring 2004.

Janet Street-Porter studied architecture at the Architectural Association for two years from 1965-67 and then switched to journalism. She was a Fleet Street columnist and also a fashion writer by the age of 21. She wrote about design and architecture for the glossies at the same time Architectural Design, Design Magazine, Queen and Vogue.

Janet was Vice President of the Ramblers Association. She also judged the Living Bridges Competition for the Royal Academy in 1996. Then she judged the Building of the Year for the Royal Fine Art Commission, in 1998. She has been a board member of the Opera Factory and a Fellow of the Royal Television Society. Also, an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Janet was also resident of the Globetrotters club and Patron of the Clerkenwell Green Association. She curated an exhibition of contemporary architecture for the 2004 inaugural Clerkenwell Biennale.

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