Ellie Goulding amongst Radio 4’s Today programme visitor editors

Pop star, Ellie Goulding is one among seven high-profile public determine folks to visitor edit BBC Radio 4’s Today programme over the Christmas interval.

Other friends who will edit the present through the week between Christmas and New Year embody former Top Gear host James May and writer Hanif Kureishi.

The custom of visitor editors has been working for the previous 20 years.

It has seen the likes of Prince Harry, Angelina Jolie and Stephen Hawking edit the present.

The BBC’s flagship information and present affairs programme will begin the visitor editor takeover on 23 December with Nasa’s Head of Science, Dr Nicky Fox, who will have a look at science schooling and the affect of outer house on music.

Boxing Day will see writer and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi as visitor editor.

On 27 December, Grand Tour and former Top Gear presenter James May will have a look at the long run for autonomous vehicles and whether or not hobbies can enhance your well being and wellbeing.

May informed the Today Podcast on Wednesday, after information that Top Gear was being paused, it was “time for a brand new format and a brand new strategy to the topic as a result of the topic has not been this fascinating, I think, because the automobile has been invented”.

Goulding will take over the present on 28 December and use her programme to take a look at local weather and nature tales, in addition to inspecting the work being finished to make the music trade extra sustainable.

He will have a look at the stigma and disgrace related to low literacy in adults after he was identified with international improvement delay and solely learnt find out how to learn and write on the age of 18.

The visitor modifying sequence will shut with Dame Emma Walmsley, CEO of the worldwide biopharma firm GSK.

Each programme will embody an interview with the visitor editor.