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SUMMARY:Samira Ahmed in conversation - Samira Ahmed (BBC)\, David Isaac CB
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DESCRIPTION:Join Worcester College Provost\, David Isaac CBE\, as he inter
 views leading role models about their lives and careers.\n\nAward-winning 
 journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed presents the BBC’s flagship arts
  show\, Front Row\, on Radio 4\, where she regularly interviews leading wr
 iters\, actors and directors. Meanwhile on BBC One\, her Newswatch program
 me scrutinises the corporation’s journalism and editorial decision makin
 g 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 po
 pular culture\, science\, politics\, and social change.\n\nIn 2020\, Samir
 a was named British Broadcasting Press Guild audio presenter of the year\,
  the same year in which she won a landmark sex discrimination employment t
 ribunal against the BBC for equal pay on Newswatch. Before joining the BBC
 \, Samira was a news anchor and correspondent for Channel 4 News\, where s
 he won the Stonewall Broadcast of the Year award for her film about the so
 -called ‘corrective’ rape of lesbian women in South Africa.\n\nSamira 
 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 a
 nd arts from the University of East Anglia\, City – University of London
 \, Kingston University and the University of Winchester.\n\nJoin us in the
  Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre at Worcester College. All are welcome to join f
 or drinks after the event. Please note that entry to the venue is via the 
 Worcester College Porters’ Lodge on Walton Street and that the auditoriu
 m is approximately five minutes’ walk from this entrance.\nSpeakers:\nSa
 mira Ahmed (BBC)\, David Isaac CBE
LOCATION:Worcester College (Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre)\, Walton Street OX1
  2HB
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