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Lucy Ash

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Covers:  Foreign Affairs with a special interest in Russia and the Former Soviet Union, social affairs, history and culture.
Foreign affairs broadcaster and author; BBC presenter. Author @iconbooks *SHORTLISTS : BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE ; ORWELL PRIZE 2025* & PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE
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Awards

Sony Gold Award

2004 - News Programme of the Year

The programme won the Sony Gold Award because according to the judges it was "moving and anger-inducing, with excellent reportage and actuality." They added: "Lucy Ash's sensitive presentation both stood back to tell the story, whilst sharing the emotion of the subject with the listener. Powerful radio, which peeled back the layers of a horrifying story." Although illegal for 40 years, the system is flourishing, as Presenter Lucy Ash, Producer Giselle Portenier and Editor Hugh Levinson made clear. "Demands for money now extend beyond the wedding, with burnt brides and aborted foetuses testifying silently to the darkest side of the dowry economy. "

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Amnesty International Radio Award

2002 - Radio Documentary

The Radio award went to Lucy Ash for an edition of Radio 4's Crossing Continents - Israel/Palestine - where she joined a quiet, little-known world of remarkable individuals who are working to make peace and watched them operate outside a political process which they see as failing. Maria Balinska the programme's editor said: "We are honoured to have won the 2002 Amnesty International Radio Award. And very pleased that through this award for Crossing Continents, recognition has also been given to those people - like the protagonists in our documentary, Palestinian Dr Izzeldeen Abuelaish and Israeli Hagit Ra'anan - who continue to work for peace and mutual understanding in the Middle East."

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Amnesty International Radio Award

2003 - Radio Documentary

India's Dowry Deaths won the Amnesty International Radio Prize and this was the judges verdict: "The winner stood out for the unflinching way in which issues were addressed and politicians put on the spot without ever losing respect for the country or its culture."

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One World Media Awards

2003 - Radio Documentary

The judges' report said: "Lucy Ash's eye-witness accounts of the daily deaths of newly-wed women who are burnt deliberately by their husbands was unforgettable."

Foreign Press Association

2010 - Radio Documentary

Lucy Ash reported from Grozny on the growing number of women snatched from the streets of the Chechen capital. Some are taken as brides, some have simply vanished without trace, others are killed and their bodies dumped. The programme includes one of the last recorded interviews with the prominent human rights activist Natasha Estemirova whose bullet ridden corpse was found by the roadside. What was coming out of the radio wasn’t a play, a fiction. This was a young Western reporter meeting a dictator with a brutal reputation and saying, “I’m in Chechnya to make a programme about women.” I heard this Crossing Continents by accident. I can’t forget it. Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph

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