Samira Ahmed
@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social
Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/ https://samiraahmed.blog/
Besides Childline (obvs), that clip of Esther Rantzen getting arrested for obstruction is my favourite thing of hers. The way she rather sardonically responds in that slightly posh put upon way is hilarious. Especially sticking her head out the window. Pernod, ouzo, marmalade and salt all round!
Free student tickets for my A Hard Day's Night film screening and conversation in Liverpool! Oct 17th news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/09/30/f...
Free student tickets for this year’s Liverpool Literary Festival - University of Liverpool News
Free student tickets for this year’s Liverpool Literary Festival
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Discussing our books on the mid-60s - social change, pop culture & the architecture of the era with historian David Kynaston at Cheltenham Book festival next Saturday 10th October www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/deep-...
Deep Into the Sixties | Cheltenham Festivals
Historian David Kynaston and broadcaster Samira Ahmed take us back to the heart of the Swinging Sixties: the Beatles and the Stones vie for the top of the
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Discussing our books on the mid-60s - social change, pop culture & the architecture of the era with historian David Kynaston at Cheltenham Book festival next Saturday 10th October www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/deep-...
Deep Into the Sixties | Cheltenham Festivals
Historian David Kynaston and broadcaster Samira Ahmed take us back to the heart of the Swinging Sixties: the Beatles and the Stones vie for the top of the
cheltenhamfestivals.org
"Chemistry is steampunk. It is class warfare." A delight to interview a very worthy winner - Kit Chapman - and the other excellent finalists at last night's @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize dinner. An inspiring night.
The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · 2d agoWe’re excited to announce the winner of this years’ Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is the 'The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry' by Kit Chapman, a ‘dazzling’ globetrotting adventure in the history of alchemy. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2026/09...
The joy of Brutalism. A @c20society.bsky.social celebration! A lot of love in the (Purcell) Room this afternoon.
Stacey Wing@staceynwing.bsky.social · 4d agoFabulous afternoon at Southbank Centre: Brutal(ism) Love and Hate. Packed out audience. Opportunity to take notes and photos added bonus 🎊 #Brutalism Hosted @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social - Panel: @grindrod.bsky.social , Eva Branscome Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape, Noris Obijiaku
Next week - St George’s Bristol on Sun 4 Oct for Slapstick Conversations! Featuring Graeme Garden with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social, #GetdownServices’Ben Sadler + Laurel and Hardy’s Duck Soup (1927) accomopanied by #RickWakeman, and #GriffRhysJones. Come to all three and get 20% off - links in bio.
Gowning up as Master and Mistress to exercise the Master Draper’s ancient right to drive sheep over Southwark Bridge…
I loved talking to Amy Lame about the social history captured in A Hard Day’s Night, and the importance of George Harrison’s embrace of Indian culture.. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Superfans! - The Beatles! - BBC Sounds
Amy Lamé tells the story of The Beatles through the words of their devoted fans.
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Latest BBC Newswatch is about coverage of Charles Spencer’s claims in his new book. From midnight Friday on link or 7:45am Saturday BBC1 Breakfast. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Latest BBC Newswatch is about coverage of Charles Spencer’s claims in his new book. From midnight Friday on link or 7:45am Saturday BBC1 Breakfast. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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If the BBC are planning to revive Play School, perhaps some of the executives ought to listen to Joy Whitby too…
Adam Macqueen@adammacqueen.bsky.social · 7d agoFellow 70s (and 60s and 80s) kids should all listen to this episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social in which @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social talk to Playschool’s creator Joy Whitby. It’s brilliant. squarewindow.co.uk/podcast/epis...
All the talk about reviving Playschool, you ought to listen to this… Our recent chat with the woman who created it back in 1964, the amazing Pioneering Joy Whitby.
Through the Square Window@squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur new episode is out today! @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social sit down with Joy Whitby, creator of Play School and Jackanory, and the woman who brought us Catzweazle and The Book Tower, among many other children's TV shows. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
If the BBC are planning to revive Play School, perhaps some of the executives ought to listen to Joy Whitby too…
Adam Macqueen@adammacqueen.bsky.social · 7d agoFellow 70s (and 60s and 80s) kids should all listen to this episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social in which @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social talk to Playschool’s creator Joy Whitby. It’s brilliant. squarewindow.co.uk/podcast/epis...
Perhaps the BBC should ask Joy Whitby, who created Play School in 1964, for her thoughts..
Adam Macqueen@adammacqueen.bsky.social · 7d agoFrom here: Big Ted is back: Play School returns to BBC after four decades www.thetimes.com/article/f0e8...
Can I ask any small UK traders out there? What’s the best card payment app that you use on your mobile phone? For in person sales in the UK only. Thank you!
Before the Normans there were.. the The Vikings. Am introducing the 1958 epic at Widescreen Weekend at @mediamuseum.bsky.social: Sat Sep 26th and watching Zulu (edited by A Hard Day's Night's editor John Jympson) Will be signing copies of my AHDN bk🎥 www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/vikings
Before the Normans there were.. the The Vikings. Am introducing the 1958 epic at Widescreen Weekend at @mediamuseum.bsky.social: Sat Sep 26th and watching Zulu (edited by A Hard Day's Night's editor John Jympson) Will be signing copies of my AHDN bk🎥 www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/vikings
Our first-ever Patreon-only episode is now available, in which @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social discuss the rise and fall of The Big Breakfast. Sign up to listen to it at www.patreon.com/squarewindow...
Have spent the last three days at and around Monte Cassino. The Benedictine monastery was rebuilt after the war.
My mum! ♥️
Sejal Sukhadwala@sejalsukhadwala.bsky.social · 2w agoIt was an absolute privilege and a real honour to speak to, and write the story of, the legend that’s Lalita Ahmed for Pit magazine - Britain’s 1st Indian cookery show presenter in 1978. My special thanks to @drkevingeddes.bsky.social and @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social for help with this article.
Trust you’re only making plans to listen to this..
Mark Fisher@markffisher.bsky.social · 2w agoNext month is the 40th anniversary of XTC’s Skylarking and to celebrate, today's episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast features XTC’s Colin Moulding, Blur’s Dave Rowntree, BBC Radio 4 presenter Samira Ahmed and MP Rupa Huq. @burningshed.com www.xtclimelight.com/2026/09/18/s...
My mum! ♥️
Sejal Sukhadwala@sejalsukhadwala.bsky.social · 2w agoIt was an absolute privilege and a real honour to speak to, and write the story of, the legend that’s Lalita Ahmed for Pit magazine - Britain’s 1st Indian cookery show presenter in 1978. My special thanks to @drkevingeddes.bsky.social and @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social for help with this article.
Latest BBC Newswatch am talking to BBC News executive John McAndrew about Newsnight moving to 7pm on Fridays. The programme is also looking at coverage of the Piddington village vote about housing migrants. From midnight Fri on link or Sat 745am BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC News - Newswatch, 19/09/2026
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Bonnie Greer was always a joy to watch on screen, a joy to interview and a hugely supportive sister whenever we met, notably when I was going through my equal pay tribunal. Here was our last encounter in 2024..Discussing her own encounter with James Baldwin www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
