Lucy Ash is an award-winning presenter of radio and TV documentaries. Awards include the Sony Gold, Amnesty International, the One World Radio Documentary Award, New York Festivals Radio Award and Radio Story of the Year award from the Foreign Press Association.
She engages audiences with humour, insight and emotional power to take them on unexpected journeys around the globe.
Although Lucy’s emphasis is current affairs, she has also presented several programmes on history and culture.
She speaks fluent French and Russian.
Lucy was educated at Camden School for Girls,
Université de Paris III, Censier, New College Oxford and the
Graduate Centre for Journalism Studies, City University.
She began her career as Glasgow Editor of The List magazine and working for weekly newspapers in Enfield and Tower Hamlets. She was also producer for Channel Four's Soviet Spring series 1990 and from
1992-94 Moscow Correspondent Scotland on Sunday
Freelance work for The Guardian, Marie Claire, Scotland on Sunday, France Info, Ouest France, The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reader’s Digest and GQ.
1988-1990 Asst Producer at Newsroom South East, BBC TV
1990 May-July Producer at The World Tonight
1990-1994 Producer/Reporter in Moscow Bureau, BBC Radio
1994 – to present Reporter/Presenter World Current Affairs Radio, BBC
