Samira Ahmed
Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society President. BFI Film Classics Book on A Hard Day's Night out Apr: bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-…
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- Catch up listen..🎧
- On tonight's BBC Front Row: Eric Schlosser on Fast Food Nation 25 years on, Harold Fry the musical, Tim Robey on Catherine O'Hara, & Samurai at the British Museum. I love the helmet that aims to put fear into the enemy by looking like an aubergine. 715pm R4 or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- If you are watching Art Of Persia on BBC4, you can catch up on all the episodes and the story behind it here…
- From Genghis Khan to 1979...Final of ep of Art of Persia is on BBC4 at 8pm tonight. Here's my behind-the-scenes blog post samiraahmed.blog/art-of-persi... You can watch all 3 episodes on the iplayer anytime: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
- On tonight's BBC Front Row: Eric Schlosser on Fast Food Nation 25 years on, Harold Fry the musical, Tim Robey on Catherine O'Hara, & Samurai at the British Museum. I love the helmet that aims to put fear into the enemy by looking like an aubergine. 715pm R4 or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- From Genghis Khan to 1979...Final of ep of Art of Persia is on BBC4 at 8pm tonight. Here's my behind-the-scenes blog post samiraahmed.blog/art-of-persi... You can watch all 3 episodes on the iplayer anytime: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
- One of the 20 somethings staying in my house is using my vintage 1950s chrome record rack as a mini laundry airer for underwear.

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- On BBC1 now, or catch up via the link…
- Latest BBC Newswatch: Discussing implications of BBC News going on YouTube. With @jakekanter.bsky.social. From midnight Fri on iplayer/Sat 745am BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Latest BBC Newswatch: Discussing implications of BBC News going on YouTube. With @jakekanter.bsky.social. From midnight Fri on iplayer/Sat 745am BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Forget Candlemas. Can confirm that Christmas has officially ended now that I've eaten the last mince pie I found in my house. #Piemas
- Had tea and custard creams with Michael Palin round Vanessa and Duncan Bell’s kitchen table at Charleston last night (ahead of a lovely interview). Yes, it was bliss.
- In what may be a first for Front Row.. incudes me and @neilkbrand.bsky.social in some entirely appropriate audio trouser ripping…
- Tonight's BBC Front Row: Michael Sheen on Our Town, @neilkbrand.bsky.social & @pamhutch.bsky.social on Laurel and Hardy, Patrick Charnley on This, My Second Life, & @larushka-iz.bsky.social on the BAFTA noms 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

- Tonight's BBC Front Row: Michael Sheen on Our Town, @neilkbrand.bsky.social & @pamhutch.bsky.social on Laurel and Hardy, Patrick Charnley on This, My Second Life, & @larushka-iz.bsky.social on the BAFTA noms 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

- Art of Persia Ep 2 went out last night on BBC4. All eps are here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Here's the behind the scenes story of making it: samiraahmed.blog/behind-the-s... Final ep 3 is next Monday 8pm
- Richard Linklater was a total joy on this..have a listen.. 🎧
- Don your finest black polo neck for Richard Linklater. He's talking Nouvelle Vague live on BBC Front Row tonight. Plus Will Page on Robbie Williams beating the Beatles' record on no 1 albums. Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon. Daughters of Donbas 715 R4 or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Important story in Metro. But poor journalism to use the euphemism of pimps & abusers. These enslaved teenage girls weren’t “servicing clients” - British men paid to rape them. Up to twenty times a day.
- Don your finest black polo neck for Richard Linklater. He's talking Nouvelle Vague live on BBC Front Row tonight. Plus Will Page on Robbie Williams beating the Beatles' record on no 1 albums. Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon. Daughters of Donbas 715 R4 or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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- Discussing coverage of Iranian protests & crackdown with BBC Persian's forensic editor on latest BBC Newswatch. From Midnight Fri on iplayer/Sat 745am BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Dear reporters talking about the Oscar noms… Hamnet is not “the story of the inspiration for Hamlet”. “A fiction imagining a possible inspiration..” is closer to acceptable.

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- If proof were needed that art offers something news can't, it's the repeat of #ArtofPersia at a time of deep trauma, offering a long view of the remarkable people of Iran. Ep 1 went out on BBC4 on Monday and here's the story behind it... (all eps are on iplayer) samiraahmed.blog/the-art-of-m...
- In Me Own Write! Got handed the v first copy of my BFI Film Classics book on A Hard Day's Night. Out Apr 2nd in the UK, June 11th in the US. You can pre-order with a 10% discount off the Bloomsbury Books website: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days...
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- On tonight's BBC Front Row: Beryl Cook retrospective, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, Cole Escola on Oh, Mary! & the artistic director of Washington National Opera on why they're leaving the Trump Kennedy Center www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- On tonight's BBC Front Row: Beryl Cook retrospective, director of The Voice of Hind Rajab, Cole Escola on Oh, Mary! & the artistic director of Washington National Opera on why they're leaving the Trump Kennedy Center www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- You can pre-order with a 10% discount off the Bloomsbury website: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days...
- On BBC1 now…
- Talking to James Stephenson about why BBC News Online is dropping honorifics unless you're a Lord or Lady.& why BBC Newswatch viewers think it's a bad idea. Also his new role as Executive Editor, Editorial Quality & Standards From midnight Fri on iplayer or 745 Sat BBC1 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Like a spy drop, my brilliant editor Rebecca Bardem at Bloomsbury has specially come to hand over the very first preview copy of my BFI Classics book. Where else but at the BFI? 🎥 (Out April 2nd)
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- Talking to James Stephenson about why BBC News Online is dropping honorifics unless you're a Lord or Lady.& why BBC Newswatch viewers think it's a bad idea. Also his new role as Executive Editor, Editorial Quality & Standards From midnight Fri on iplayer or 745 Sat BBC1 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Latest BBC Front Row: we reviewed Hawaii exhibition at British Museum, Heated Rivalry, Jackson Alone & a controversy over contemporary art prizes. Catch up listen 🎧 here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...