Mishal Husain
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Mishal Husain is one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4’s influential Today programme and the television news on BBC One. In over twenty years in journalism she has worked on big international as well as British stories and become known for interviewing, presenting on location and for critically acclaimed documentaries such as ‘Malala – Shot for Going to School’ and the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Her work has taken her from Davos to refugee camps and from interviewing Prime Ministers to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Born in the UK, she grew up in the Middle East and was later educated at Cambridge University, where she read law. She also has a Master’s in Law from the European University Institute in Florence.
Mishal’s first book ‘THE SKILLS: How to Win at Work’ was published by Fourth Estate in the UK in 2018 and HarperCollins in the US in 2019. Her new book BROKEN THREADS: My Family from Empire to Independence tells the stories of her four grandparents whose lives were shaped by the Raj, a world war, independence and Partition. Described by Sathnam Sanghera as ‘one of the best memoirs I’ve read in years’ and as ‘spellbinding’ by Peter Frankopan, the memoir quickly became a Sunday Times bestseller.
Mishal lives in London with her husband and three sons.
Twitter: @mishalhusain
Instagram: @mishalhusain