The broadcaster on making a stand, meeting Paul McCartney, and a solo shopping trip at the age of two
Born in London, Samira Ahmed, 53, began her career as a BBC trainee and rose to present news, current affairs and arts programmes on radio and television. In 2020, she won the Broadcasting Press Guild’s audio broadcaster of the year for Front Row on Radio 4 and her podcast How I Found My Voice. In January 2020, she won a landmark sex discrimination employment tribunal against the BBC for equal pay on the television show Newswatch. She features in Tamesis Street: Thirty Authors Tell One Story of a Climate Disaster, available through ShelterBox Book Club. She lives in London and has two children.
When were you happiest?
On stage, interviewing one of my heroes, Paul McCartney, at the Royal Festival Hall last November.
