Biography:

Amanda Hussain is the presenter of BBC Asian Network's new weekend breakfast show every Saturday and Sunday from 08.00-10.00.

Amanda was born in Hertfordshire and studied in London.  While at University she was desperate to be a film director until a journalism module seduced her into a love of broadcasting.  Amanda's big break came on graduation when she was asked to present BBC2's Network East.  Her most recent TV and radio gigs includes presenting on BBC News and fronting her own radio shows on GLR/BBC London News.

Past work as an arts correspondent and news reporter saw her presenting live from the Cannes film festival one minute and breaking the news of the Soho nail bomb in London the next.  Big name interviewees include everyone from David Cameron to Tom Cruise, Salmon Rushdie to Madonna.

Amanda was hand-picked as one of the first BBC journalists to take part in a US style video journalist course and recent career highlights include producing and directing BBC News films taking Oscar winning film director Anthony Minghella back to the Island where he grew up and spending a day at Brick Lane with Shah Rukh Khan.

BBC Asian Network listeners will already be familiar with Amanda who has guest presented on the station since its launch. Her distinctive husky voice is used to front a number of documentaries, as well as high profile TV and radio campaigns… not bad for a girl whose mother worried that as a child her voice was so deep she sounded like a baby grizzly bear!