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,
Kirsty Young the BBC announced Young would succeed Fiona Bruce as the presenter of "Crimewatch". She presented the show from January 2008 until December 2015. From 11 January 2010 she presented a four-part BBC TV series entitled "The British Family". In March–April 2011, she presented the TV series "The British at Work". On 31 August 2018 it was announced that Young would be stepping down from "Desert Island Discs" "for a number of months" to receive treatment for a form of fibromyalgia, and that Lauren Laverne would deputise during this period. Young attended Cambusbarron Primary School and Stirling High School. She returned