Olympian Laura Kenny to guest edit Radio 4's Today

Dame Laura Kenny volition impermanent edit Radio 4's Today programme implicit Christmas, the BBC has announced.

The British cyclist is 1 of six names who volition editorially signifier episodes of the quality programme implicit the festive period.

Author Frank Cottrell Boyce, the existent children's laureate, erstwhile chancellor Sir Sajid Javid, and TV presenter Baroness Floella Benjamin volition besides instrumentality the reins.

This year's line-up is completed by adventurer and presenter Dwayne Fields, and neuroscientist and vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, Irene Tracey.

Public figures impermanent editing during Christmas and New Year is thing the Radio 4 programme has done annually for much than 2 decades.

Previous impermanent editors person included Angelina Jolie, Stephen Hawking, Bono, Margaret Atwood, David Hockney, Raheem Sterling, Greta Thunberg, Carey Mulligan, Jamie Oliver and Ellie Goulding.

Frank Cottrell-Boyce's programme, broadcast connected Christmas Eve, volition look astatine the relation speechmaking tin play successful shaping children’s lives and find retired astatine what happens to a child’s encephalon erstwhile they are work to.

Boxing Day volition spot Dwayne Fields edit a programme with items connected homelessness and the worth to communities of volunteering.

Sir Sajid Javid's programme connected 27 December volition see items connected the benefits and risks of artificial quality (AI) arsenic good arsenic the BBC children's programme Grange Hill.

Professor Irene Tracey's programme connected 28 December volition spot her research developments successful chronic symptom relief, arsenic good arsenic the relation that universities play successful society.

The prime of children's television, including an introspection of the determination from nationalist work broadcasters to unregulated online platforms, volition beryllium among the topics explored connected 30 December by Baroness Floella Benjamin.

And Dame Laura Kenny's New Year's Eve occurrence volition spot the UK's astir decorated pistillate Olympian research the interaction elite athletics has connected women's bodies, including a look astatine the contented of fertility, arsenic good arsenic the proviso of PE successful schools.

Today's exertion Owenna Griffiths said: "Every twelvemonth I look guardant to the caller ideas, hidden stories and unexpected perspectives the impermanent editors bring to Today.

"This twelvemonth is nary objection with an outstanding line-up that promises to bring large warmth and airy to the festive season. I'm precise grateful to each of them for giving up their clip to edit Today."