Between 2006 and 2007, Perkins was a panellist on a Radio 4 show, The Personality Test, a quiz show about the host, presented by a different host each week. Past hosts include Gyles Brandreth and Rick Wakeman, and other panellists include Robin Ince, Lucy Porter and Will Smith. She also provided the voiceovers at the start and end of each programme. Perkins is a regular cast member of Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!. Perkins presented a Radio 4 documentary on the Lake District's competition the "World's Biggest Liar", which she won. In December 2008, she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3. Perkins was also chairman of the Radio 4 panel game Dilemma, in which four humorous guests discussed moral conundrums she provided for them. The first series ran for six episodes on Sunday evenings from 13 November to 18 December 2011. Another series of this programme ran in February 2013. On 9 July 2017 Perkins was the guest celebrity on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. In February 2020, she began presenting a 6.30 pm comedy series on BBC Radio 4 called Nature Table, taking a humorous look at the natural world, recorded at ZSL London Zoo. Books Perkins was a judge for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Perkins's memoir, Spectacles, was published in October 2015. In October 2018, she released an autobiographical travel book East of Croydon: Blunderings Through India and South East Asia, which was shortlisted in the 'Autobiography of the Year' category at the 2018 National Book Awards. Edinburgh Festival appearances Perkins has performed two stand-up comedy solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2006 in 2005, and The Disappointing Second Show in 2006. Personal life In August 2012, Perkins appeared on Tatlers list of high-profile lesbians in London. She was outed as a lesbian in 2002 by her ex-girlfriend Rhona Cameron during Cameron's appearance on ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Perkins has said that "being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me". In April 2015, Perkins was the victim of online harassment on Twitter after oddsmakers made her the favourite to fill the vacancy on the BBC's Top Gear programme left by the departure of Jeremy Clarkson, despite Perkins saying that rumours about her imminent appointment to the show were "fabricated". She temporarily quit