PJ Harvey has been named as one of the five guest editors who will take over Radio 4’s Today programme during the festive period.

The other guest editors will be: Sir Tim Berners Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium; Eliza Manningham Buller, former Director General of MI5; broadcaster Michael Palin; and Antony Jenkins, Group Chief Executive of Barclays.

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The five guest editors’ programmes will air on Today between Thursday 26 and Tuesday 31 December. The guest editors take responsibility for around half of the programme’s output.

According to a BBC Radio 4 press release, Harvey’s programme “will showcase some of her many influences, political, poetical and musical.”