Lucy Ash

Lucy Ash began her radio career as a producer in the BBC Moscow bureau just as the Soviet Union was falling apart. After four years covering the chaotic birth of the New Russia, she returned to the UK and began presenting foreign affairs features and documentaries.

She reports on a wide range of international topics but has a strong interest and expertise in social justice, human rights, penal reform and health issues. She also keeps a close eye on developments in France, Russia and East/West relations. She has presented a special programme on Ukraine's Orange Revolution and a two part series called Putin's Game.

Best known for her award winning reports on Crossing Continents, Lucy is also a regular contributor to From Our Own Correspondent. She has presented editions of It's My Story, such as Overturning the Tide about a bereaved father in southern Indian who set up an orphanage after the Tsunami and The Hard Road Home about a drug mule returning to her children in Jamaica after serving a long prison sentence in the UK.

Lucy was also a presenter of A World in Your Ear and, because of that, was inspired to make a five-part series, Radio Rage, about the world's most provocative radio stations. She has produced and presented arts features on the Lomo camera, Russian pulp fiction and cowboy flicks from the Soviet era.

Most recently for Crossing Continents Lucy has been to a remote part of Eastern Siberia to report on the illegal logging trade that feeds China's surging appetite for wood.