Kirsty Young board' stickers among her pet hates. In June 2006, Young was announced as the new presenter of the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme "Desert Island Discs", replacing Sue Lawley; she began on 1 October 2006. According to the odds given by bookmaker William Hill she was an outsider for the job at 20/1. She returned to Five News on 28 September 2006, but in 2007, Young announced that she would be leaving Five News in the autumn, following ten years as its head anchor. On 29 August 2007, she presented her last show for Five News. On 29 September 2007,
Neil Mitchell (radio presenter) at the Melbourne Press Club's annual Quill awards. This award was for Mitchell's scoop on the Ford Motor Company's decision to end local manufacturing in Australia. Mitchell has won many Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) including:- Mitchell has been married since the 1980s and has a son and a daughter. He rarely mentions his family life publicly. He is a keen supporter of AFL football club, Melbourne. Neil Mitchell (radio presenter) Neil Mitchell AO (born 21 November 1951) is an Australian radio presenter on Melbourne AM talk-back station 3AW. The son of a school teacher, Mitchell entered journalism at 17,