Samira Ahmed
| Samira Ahmed | |
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| Born |
15 June 1968 London, England, UK |
| Alma mater |
St Edmund Hall, Oxford City, University of London |
| Occupation | broadcaster, journalist and writer |
| Years active | 1990-present |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Lalita Ahmed (mother) |
Samira Ahmed (born 15 June 1968, London) is a British freelance journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, where she has presented Radio 4's PM, The World Tonight and Sunday. She also presented two Proms for BBC Four in 2011. On BBC Radio 3, Ahmed is one of the presenters of Night Waves.
Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and for The Spectator magazine's Arts Blog. She was a reporter and presenter on Channel 4 News from 2000 to 2011. She presented Sunday Morning Live, a topical discussion programme on BBC One from 2012 to 2013.
Ahmed's mother Lalita (née Chatterjee, born 1939, Lucknow) worked for the Hindi service of the BBC World Service in Bush House. Ahmed was educated at Wimbledon High School, a girls' independent school in Wimbledon, south London, and read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, between 1986 and 1989. During this period she edited Isis and the Union magazines, both Oxford University student publications, and won the Philip Geddes Journalism Prize for her work on student newspapers. After graduation she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism at City University, London. She recalls that Lucy Mathen, the first female Asian reporter on BBC television, who worked on John Craven's Newsround, was an inspirational figure for her, as was broadcaster Shyama Perera, who was working in Fleet Street at around the same time.
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