Jane Garvey is to leave Woman’s Hour, announcing her departure weeks after Dame Jenni Murray said she was leaving the BBC Radio 4 show. Garvey will leave at the end of 2020 after 13 years in the job, and will host her own interview series on the station in 2021. “It has been a real privilege to play a small part in the history of this very special radio programme,” she said. “On one unforgettable day, I interviewed David Cameron in the morning and Mary J Blige in the afternoon. There’s no other job like it. “But famous people are not the reason people engage with Woman’s Hour. It is because the programme still talks about the subjects and challenges no one else goes near. I’m very proud of our relationship with the audience and the trust they place in us.” The BBC said new Woman’s Hour presenters would be announced in due course. Garvey will host her own “high-profile” interview series on Radio 4 from next April. The series promises interviews of people with “extraordinary stories and experiences to tell from across the UK”. The BBC also said Garvey’s podcast with Fi Glover – Fortunately… with Fi and Jane – would become part of the Radio 4 broadcast schedule from January. The podcast, which has become one of the most popular produced by Radio 4, has an upcoming guest lineup that includes the Great British Bake Off star Nadiya Hussain and Ruth Jones, the co-writer and co-star of the comedy series Gavin and Stacey. Mohit Bakaya, the controller of Radio 4, said: “When it comes to the art of radio presenting there are few that can match the brilliance of Jane Garvey. “And whilst I understand that she feels it is time to move on after a terrific 13 years presenting Woman’s Hour, I am thrilled that she will stay on the network presenting her own interview series, as well as becoming a regular late-night fixture, along with Fi Glover, as the acclaimed Fortunately podcast comes to the Radio 4 schedule.” Murray announced at the end of July she was leaving Woman’s Hour after more than three decades. Her last programme will be on 1 October. She is the longest-serving presenter in the show’s 74-year history. Garvey is believed to have decided to leave before Murray announced her departure. The broadcaster, the first voice on BBC 5 live when it was launched in 1994, revealed the news to her listeners on Friday morning, saying: “Is there anything worse than a personal statement from a radio presenter? No, not really, but I’m afraid you are about to hear one. “I have loved presenting Woman’s Hour, it has been a tremendous privilege, but I have decided to leave the programme at the end of the year. I’m not leaving Radio 4. I’m going to be doing a new interview programme, starting in April of next year and, if you are a listener to the Fortunately… podcast with me and Fi Glover, somehow or other that is being allowed to stagger on to the Radio 4 late-night schedule, so that will be coming to Radio 4 in the new year as well.” She added: “No time to get maudlin … we can do that in late December.” Garvey, who irked some listeners earlier this year and was accused of being “snobby” when she called Arctic Rolls a “low-level pudding”, tweeted that “No, it wasn’t the bloody Arctic Roll thing that did for me in the end. “Thanks for all the comments. Especially the one that said I was way too opinionated, and a man should take over BBC Woman’s Hour immediately.”