Samira Ahmed
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia, @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society President. Sarf Londoner,spiritual Berliner,ex-Los Angelena. BFI Film Classics Book on
A Hard Day's Night out Apr 2026
https://samiraahmed.blog/
A Hard Day's Night out Apr 2026
https://samiraahmed.blog/
From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers – Global stories about the buildings that bond us (including Art nouveau Reims, Iranian brutalism, LA's picture palaces)
Am giving @c20society.bsky.social Christmas Lecture on Dec 2. In person or online. Tix here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Am giving @c20society.bsky.social Christmas Lecture on Dec 2. In person or online. Tix here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers – Global stories about the buildings that bond us (including Art nouveau Reims, Iranian brutalism, LA's picture palaces)
Am giving @c20society.bsky.social Christmas Lecture on Dec 2. In person or online. Tix here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Am giving @c20society.bsky.social Christmas Lecture on Dec 2. In person or online. Tix here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Going to be remembering the maverick genius of Peter Watkins on tonight's BBC Front Row with @ianchristi.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Going to be remembering the maverick genius of Peter Watkins on tonight's BBC Front Row with @ianchristi.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Lovely longer online version of me on the magnificence of Margo in the @theipaper.com's feature on The Good Life at 50. inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Lovely longer online version of me on the magnificence of Margo in the @theipaper.com's feature on The Good Life at 50. inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
On tonight's BBC Front Row: Diplomacy as cinematic action thriller: Talking to Norwegian director Tommy Gulliksen about Facing War - his remarkable film about last year of Jens Stoltenberg as NATO Sec Gen. 715pm or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
On tonight's BBC Front Row: Diplomacy as cinematic action thriller: Talking to Norwegian director Tommy Gulliksen about Facing War - his remarkable film about last year of Jens Stoltenberg as NATO Sec Gen. 715pm or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A show I definitely taped on the family video recorder… A future ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social beckons..
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A show I definitely taped on the family video recorder… A future ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social beckons..
Loved talking to @nickduerden.bsky.social about The Good Life for the i. And by great chance, I found myself sitting next to Felicity Kendall at the Theatre the other night and told her about my Good Life-themed 40th birthday party. I went as Margo.
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Loved talking to @nickduerden.bsky.social about The Good Life for the i. And by great chance, I found myself sitting next to Felicity Kendall at the Theatre the other night and told her about my Good Life-themed 40th birthday party. I went as Margo.
Am so sorry to have heard of the death of Composer Adrian Sutton. In Oct last year we had the loveliest geeky conversation on BBC Front Row about the role of computers and 80s synths in shaping his rich musical work. Listen from 28:09. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Am so sorry to have heard of the death of Composer Adrian Sutton. In Oct last year we had the loveliest geeky conversation on BBC Front Row about the role of computers and 80s synths in shaping his rich musical work. Listen from 28:09. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Essential reading - this column by the always thoughtful Raymond Snoddy in the latest issue of @nujofficial.bsky.social's The Journalist.
October 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Essential reading - this column by the always thoughtful Raymond Snoddy in the latest issue of @nujofficial.bsky.social's The Journalist.
Latest BBC Front Row: At last! I get to interview one of my favourite actresses: Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Leicester's Curve Theatre, Todd Rundgren on the power of AI for good & David Szalzy on his Booker shortlisted novel Flesh. Have a listen 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Latest BBC Front Row: At last! I get to interview one of my favourite actresses: Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Leicester's Curve Theatre, Todd Rundgren on the power of AI for good & David Szalzy on his Booker shortlisted novel Flesh. Have a listen 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I thank yew for this letter in today’s Metro…. 🎭
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I thank yew for this letter in today’s Metro…. 🎭
Latest BBC Front Row tonight! Guillermo Del Toro on getting Oscar Isaac to channel some Oliver Reed into Victor Frankenstein. While I lurk in the shadows. Such a wonderful conversation. Such a gorgeous film. R4 715 or link www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Latest BBC Front Row tonight! Guillermo Del Toro on getting Oscar Isaac to channel some Oliver Reed into Victor Frankenstein. While I lurk in the shadows. Such a wonderful conversation. Such a gorgeous film. R4 715 or link www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
London is always full of surprises. Tonight it’s the remarkably soothing sound of leaves gently rustling in the breeze on the plane trees of Holland Park. 🍂 🍁
October 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
London is always full of surprises. Tonight it’s the remarkably soothing sound of leaves gently rustling in the breeze on the plane trees of Holland Park. 🍂 🍁
I mean, POTENTIAL death trap.
October 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I mean, POTENTIAL death trap.
On tonight's BBC Front Row: Sam Ryder performs life, Hilton Als on Jean Rhys, the creators of K Pop Demon Hunters. 715pm Radio 4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On tonight's BBC Front Row: Sam Ryder performs life, Hilton Als on Jean Rhys, the creators of K Pop Demon Hunters. 715pm Radio 4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
She's standing on right in the floral sari rehearsing a 1960s drama serial for the Hindi Section of the BBC World Service. And there's a link to a clip of her talking about the early days of making Asian Language TV at Pebble Mill from a 2007 Archive on Four here: www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
October 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
She's standing on right in the floral sari rehearsing a 1960s drama serial for the Hindi Section of the BBC World Service. And there's a link to a clip of her talking about the early days of making Asian Language TV at Pebble Mill from a 2007 Archive on Four here: www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
There's a lovely BBC Archive online about the 60th anniversary of the Asian Programming Unit. Which includes this lovely photo of my mum, Lalita Ahmed, (with script on far left) who presented Gharbar. Once she took me along and I watched from the gallery. canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/asian60/
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
There's a lovely BBC Archive online about the 60th anniversary of the Asian Programming Unit. Which includes this lovely photo of my mum, Lalita Ahmed, (with script on far left) who presented Gharbar. Once she took me along and I watched from the gallery. canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/asian60/
You can get 25% off pre-ordering my BFI film Classics book on A Hard Day’s Night from now until Friday from Waterstones online or via the app.
October 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
You can get 25% off pre-ordering my BFI film Classics book on A Hard Day’s Night from now until Friday from Waterstones online or via the app.
Here’s the full cover…
October 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Here’s the full cover…
You can get a 25% discount on preorder from midnight tonight till Friday from @waterstones.bsky.social online.
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
You can get a 25% discount on preorder from midnight tonight till Friday from @waterstones.bsky.social online.
My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...
October 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...
Latest BBC Newswatch looks at why so many viewers thought the BBC had broadcast footage of Hamas executions in Gaza. From Fri midnight on link or BBC1 Sat 745am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Latest BBC Newswatch looks at why so many viewers thought the BBC had broadcast footage of Hamas executions in Gaza. From Fri midnight on link or BBC1 Sat 745am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
"It's time for..." episode 2 of Through the Square Window. Well, nearly. It's actually out on Wednesday, hosted by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social Looking at shows from October 1990, including...
October 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"It's time for..." episode 2 of Through the Square Window. Well, nearly. It's actually out on Wednesday, hosted by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social Looking at shows from October 1990, including...
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A lovely thing to be a pick in @sfxmagazine.bsky.social by @nicksetchfield.bsky.social..
new episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social made by me and @gkw.bsky.social is out nx Wednesday. We look at TV shows from October 1990..
A lovely thing to be a pick in @sfxmagazine.bsky.social by @nicksetchfield.bsky.social..
new episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social made by me and @gkw.bsky.social is out nx Wednesday. We look at TV shows from October 1990..
October 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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A lovely thing to be a pick in @sfxmagazine.bsky.social by @nicksetchfield.bsky.social..
new episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social made by me and @gkw.bsky.social is out nx Wednesday. We look at TV shows from October 1990..
A lovely thing to be a pick in @sfxmagazine.bsky.social by @nicksetchfield.bsky.social..
new episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social made by me and @gkw.bsky.social is out nx Wednesday. We look at TV shows from October 1990..
On tonight's BBC Front Row: Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow on A House Of Dynamite and the strange days of modern America, Kiran Desai, the decline in university humanities course & we remember Jilly Cooper 715PM R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
On tonight's BBC Front Row: Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow on A House Of Dynamite and the strange days of modern America, Kiran Desai, the decline in university humanities course & we remember Jilly Cooper 715PM R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Latest BBC Newswatch: After Panorama's film about Charing Cross Police station, BBC News director of News Content Richard Burgess discusses the ethics of secret filming and undercover reporting. On the link now: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Latest BBC Newswatch: After Panorama's film about Charing Cross Police station, BBC News director of News Content Richard Burgess discusses the ethics of secret filming and undercover reporting. On the link now: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...