Meet the presenters

Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed joined Front Row in 2014. She’s an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and Visiting Professor of Journalism at Kingston University with a special love of Westerns, science fiction and the novels of Arnold Bennett.

The driving force behind her work is her fascination with the relationship between popular culture, politics and social change. She also presents Newswatch on BBC One, Something Understood on Radio 4 and The Proms on BBC Four and makes documentaries for BBC radio and television on her passions: everything from David Bowie and 70s suburbia to The Fundamentalist Queen, about the wife of Oliver Cromwell.

Samira writes a column for The Big Issue and contributes to newspapers including The Guardian. She won a Stonewall Broadcast of the year award while a reporter and presenter at Channel 4 News. Samira began her career as a BBC News trainee and has worked as a reporter on Newsnight, the Today programme, as the BBC's Los Angeles Correspondent and news anchor for Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin.

More of Samira's work can be found via her personal site, www.samiraahmed.co.uk