Radio & Podcasts

Sahar has extensive experience across radio, podcasts and audio storytelling, working as a presenter, reporter, host and producer across current affairs, investigations, documentaries and feature-led programmes. A recipient of the Åke Blomström Award, an international programme recognising and developing distinctive radio documentary talent, she has trained with leading audio documentary makers from around the world.

Her work ranges from international reporting and long-form documentaries to stories exploring human rights, religion, culture, identity and the arts — often going beyond the headlines and into hard-to-access communities to tell intimate, revealing stories.

Across subjects and formats, her work combines strong journalism with immersive, character-driven storytelling, curiosity and an instinct for finding the human stories that bring complex issues, people, places and ideas to life through sound.

Selected Work

THE MOSQUE FOR BANGLADESH’S TRANSGENDER WOMEN

BBC Radio 4 & BBC World Service · The Documentary

Bianca Raffaella: SEE WHAT SHE CAN SEE

BBC World Service · The Documentary

ME, THE REFUGEE

BBC World Service · The Documentary

DIRTY WORK

Sky News · Investigative Series

THE PLIGHT OF HINDUS IN BANGLADESH

BBC World Service · The Documentary

CHIGHALI

Vespucci · Paperless

DENMARK’S MIGRANT GHETTOS

BBC World Service · Assignment

LIVING WITH THE DEAD

BBC Radio 4 & BBC World Service · Crossing Continents

AFGHAN STARS

BBC Radio 4 & BBC World Service · Art of Now

A BRIEF HISTORY OF IRAN’S MUSIC

BBC World Service · Global Beats

THE LAST WHISPERERS OF BELARUS

BBC World Service · The Documentary

KILLED FOR LOVING THE WRONG MAN

BBC World Service · Outlook · Lives Less Ordinary

Kubra Khademi: ART OF STRENGTH AND SURVIVAL

BBC World Service · The Documentary

AFGHANISTAN’S MADNESS OF WAR

BBC World Service · Assignment

WEST BENGAL’S FESTIVAL OF PAIN

BBC Radio 4 & BBC World Service · The Documentary

A REFUGEE FILMS HIS JOURNEY

BBC World Service · Outlook · Lives Less Ordinary

FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE TALIBAN

BBC Radio 4 & BBC World Service · From Our Own Correspondent

Mohammad Barrangi: THE LAST RAIN IN WONDERLAND

BBC World Service · The Documentary

DOING SEX

Vespucci · Video Podcast Series

Trine Hahnemann: MIXING COOKERY & HYGGE

BBC World Service · The Documentary

Nazanin Moradi: BECOMING DRAGON

BBC World Service · The Documentary

THE CONDUCTOR OF KABUL

Vespucci · Paperless

AFGHAN STARS NOW

BBC World Service · The Documentary

Bishwajit Goswami: THE ART OF BANGLADESH’S RIVERS

BBC World Service · The Documentary

Afshin Naghouni: JELLY BEANS & NOSTALGIA

BBC World Service · The Documentary

NEPAL’S LIVING GODDESS

BBC World Service · The Documentary

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

BBC Radio 4 & BBC World Service · International Dispatches

Trivax: AGAINST ALL OPPOSITION

BBC World Service · The Documentary

ALEPPO ZOO: A RESCUE MISSION

BBC News · Radio Feature

THE CULTURAL FRONTLINE

BBC World Service · Weekly Series

YOUR LIFE IN A CUP OF COFFEE

BBC World Service · The Documentary

MOROCCO’S HORSE WOMEN OF FANTASIA

BBC Radio 4 · Woman’s Hour

OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL

BBC World Service · Live Broadcast

PEOPLE FIXING THE WORLD

BBC World Service · Weekly Series