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Lucy Ash

Lucy Ash

Verified

Broadcast Journalist, Freelance

London

Biography

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

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Content

Total articles 104

  • How Russia’s Orthodox Church supports its war

    By Lucy Ash Verified · Prospect Magazine

    Feb. 17, 2025

  • Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2025 Book Prize

    By Michele A. Berdy Verified, Howard Amos, Lucy Ash Verified, Alexei Navalny · The Moscow Times

    Apr. 10, 2025

  • The horror that spawned Putin

    By Lucy Ash Verified · The New European

    Mar. 18, 2025

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Company Info

Freelance

De Pere, Wisconsin, United States