Join Worcester College Provost, David Isaac CBE, as he interviews leading role models about their lives and careers.

Mishal Husain has hosted BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme for 11 years, and also fronted BBC One’s recent UK general election debates. Educated at New Hall, Cambridge, she joined the BBC as a junior producer in 1998 and has since worked as a journalist on many of the corporation’s biggest current affairs programmes. She joined the Today programme as its first Muslim presenter in 2013 and was voted Broadcaster of the Year at the London Press Club Awards in 2015. In November 2024, Husain announced she would be leaving the BBC in the new year to move to Bloomberg, where she will host a new interview series and be editor-at-large of its Weekend Edition. In 2024, she published a memoir, Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence.

Join Worcester College in the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre. All are welcome to join for drinks after the event. Please note that entry to the venue is via the Worcester College Porters’ Lodge on Walton Street and that the auditorium is approximately five minutes’ walk from this entrance.

Free