Join Worcester College Provost, David Isaac CBE, as he interviews leading role models about their lives and careers.

Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed presents the BBC’s flagship arts show, Front Row, on Radio 4, where she regularly interviews leading writers, actors and directors. Meanwhile on BBC One, her Newswatch programme scrutinises the corporation’s journalism and editorial decision making on behalf of viewers and listeners. Samira’s documentaries include Art of Persia (BBC Four) – the first major Western documentary series shot in Iran for 40 years – as well as films exploring the intersection of popular culture, science, politics, and social change.

In 2020, Samira was named British Broadcasting Press Guild audio presenter of the year, the same year in which she won a landmark sex discrimination employment tribunal against the BBC for equal pay on Newswatch. Before joining the BBC, Samira was a news anchor and correspondent for Channel 4 News, where she won the Stonewall Broadcast of the Year award for her film about the so-called ‘corrective’ rape of lesbian women in South Africa.

Samira is a trustee of the Centre for Women’s Justice and on the advisory board of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford. She is an honorary fellow of Oxford’s St Edmund Hall and holds honorary doctorates in law and arts from the University of East Anglia, City – University of London, Kingston University and the University of Winchester.

Join this event in the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre at Worcester College. All are welcome to join for drinks after the event. Please note that entry to the venue is via the Worcester College Porters’ Lodge on Walton Street and that the auditorium is approximately five minutes’ walk from this entrance.

Free