Samira Ahmed is a journalist and broadcaster and Visiting Professor of Media at Kingston University. She presents a number of BBC programmes including Newswatch and Sunday Morning Live on BBC1 and Free Thinking on Radio 3. Previously a reporter and presenter on Channel 4 News and Newsnight, she has also been the BBC’s Los Angeles correspondent and a news anchor for Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin. Samira writes a column in The Big Issue magazine and has a special love of westerns.