New Ambassador for the Media Society

We are pleased to announce that Ritula Shah (ex-presenter of the BBC R4 flagship ‘The World Tonight’ and now at Classic FM) has agreed to become our first official Media Society Ambassador. She'll continue to chair some of our discussion events next year, be one of our podcast interviewers, and join us at other Media Society events.

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Biography from her website:

Ritula Shah is an award winning journalist and broadcaster.

She is the presenter of ‘Calm Classics’ every weekday evening on ClassicFM.

Ritula left the BBC in April 2023, after a career spanning almost 35 years. For the past 15 years, she was the main presenter of the World Tonight, Radio 4’s evening news programme, which has a focus on international affairs and domestic politics. She's presented the programme from countries including Brazil, Jordan, India, China, the US, Guantanamo Bay, Finland and Germany.

She was also the lead presenter of The Real Story, a weekly current affairs discussion programme on the BBC World Service.

Ritula is a judge for the British Academy Prize for Cultural Understanding 2025 and a fellow of the London Centre for the Humanities.

She is on the advisory board of the defence and security think tank RUSI, a trustee of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer and an ambassador for the British Asian Trust.