Razia Iqbal
BBC presenter
Judge , 2015

Razia Iqbal is a BBC presenter. She is one of the main presenters of 'Newshour', the BBC World Service’s flagship daily current-affairs programme.
She also presents 'Talking Books' on BBC World TV and 'Front Row' on Radio 4. She was the BBC’s Arts Correspondent for more than a decade, and over a 25-year career at the BBC she has worked as a correspondent in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as a political correspondent, and a Special Correspondent for the six and ten o’clock news on BBC 1.
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