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/
Stranger Things fill BBC Front Row tonight: The Duffer Brothers on the end of their hit drama; Plus I talk to Adam Buxton about the eerie phenomenon of fake AI biographies on Amazon. 715pm R4 or link after. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Stranger Things fill BBC Front Row tonight: The Duffer Brothers on the end of their hit drama; Plus I talk to Adam Buxton about the eerie phenomenon of fake AI biographies on Amazon. 715pm R4 or link after. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
EVENT: Join C20 President @SamiraAhmedUK
for our annual Xmas Lecture: From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers–Global stories about the buildings that bond us.
🗓️ Tue 2 Dec 2025 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross St+Online
🎟️ Book tickets: @c20society.bsky.social
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
for our annual Xmas Lecture: From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers–Global stories about the buildings that bond us.
🗓️ Tue 2 Dec 2025 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross St+Online
🎟️ Book tickets: @c20society.bsky.social
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
EVENT: Join C20 President @SamiraAhmedUK
for our annual Xmas Lecture: From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers–Global stories about the buildings that bond us.
🗓️ Tue 2 Dec 2025 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross St+Online
🎟️ Book tickets: @c20society.bsky.social
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
for our annual Xmas Lecture: From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers–Global stories about the buildings that bond us.
🗓️ Tue 2 Dec 2025 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross St+Online
🎟️ Book tickets: @c20society.bsky.social
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
A magic afternoon in Margate with the sparkling, brilliant Bridget Riley at Turner Contemporary - who’ve put on a thrilling exhibition with her. Must see.
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A magic afternoon in Margate with the sparkling, brilliant Bridget Riley at Turner Contemporary - who’ve put on a thrilling exhibition with her. Must see.
Wrote about Marc Bolan getting an English Heritage blue plaque - in latest issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social. Lovely story about how a rebel genius got establishment recognition 50 years on. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6479
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wrote about Marc Bolan getting an English Heritage blue plaque - in latest issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social. Lovely story about how a rebel genius got establishment recognition 50 years on. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6479
Eadmund se eadiga° eastengla° cynincg wæs snotor° and wurðfull°, and wurðode° symble° mid æþelum þeawum° þone ælmihtigan God. #StEdmund’sDay
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Eadmund se eadiga° eastengla° cynincg wæs snotor° and wurðfull°, and wurðode° symble° mid æþelum þeawum° þone ælmihtigan God. #StEdmund’sDay
My American dream come true: Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Bryan Cranston are on BBC Front Row. Also John M Chu on Wicked: For Good, @matthemley.bsky.social on dynamic pricing at the Royal Opera and Ballet, Nikkitha Bakshani & Diana Henry on the art of food writing. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My American dream come true: Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Bryan Cranston are on BBC Front Row. Also John M Chu on Wicked: For Good, @matthemley.bsky.social on dynamic pricing at the Royal Opera and Ballet, Nikkitha Bakshani & Diana Henry on the art of food writing. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Currently listening to Rach 2 with a stale rock cake & a cup of tea in the station cafeteria of my mind to get in the mood for hosting tomorrow's BFI panel discussion and screening of Brief Encounter at 80. Sold out, but worth checking with box office. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
November 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Currently listening to Rach 2 with a stale rock cake & a cup of tea in the station cafeteria of my mind to get in the mood for hosting tomorrow's BFI panel discussion and screening of Brief Encounter at 80. Sold out, but worth checking with box office. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Great thoughtful piece by @rogermosey.bsky.social about the BBC. And this section especially.. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Great thoughtful piece by @rogermosey.bsky.social about the BBC. And this section especially.. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As a teen I’d dream of finding myself with a new born baby & thinking when did that happen. Since I’ve had children I’ve often dreamt of finding
I’d written a book. Now it appears I’m the mother of at least quintuplet proofs. #paperbackwriter
I’d written a book. Now it appears I’m the mother of at least quintuplet proofs. #paperbackwriter
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
As a teen I’d dream of finding myself with a new born baby & thinking when did that happen. Since I’ve had children I’ve often dreamt of finding
I’d written a book. Now it appears I’m the mother of at least quintuplet proofs. #paperbackwriter
I’d written a book. Now it appears I’m the mother of at least quintuplet proofs. #paperbackwriter
Excellent piece by a survivor of the Sarajevo snipers who Britain took in as a child refugee.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Excellent piece by a survivor of the Sarajevo snipers who Britain took in as a child refugee.
Heading into Bristol to interview guess who?
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Heading into Bristol to interview guess who?
Enjoying this @thestage discussion about Star casting on the West End stage. It was ever thus it seems.. 🎭
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Enjoying this @thestage discussion about Star casting on the West End stage. It was ever thus it seems.. 🎭
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. 🍂 🍁