Sangita Myska

Sangita Myska is an award-winning British television presenter and journalist, currently presenting weekends on LBC as well as hosting a number of high profile daytime shows.

She created and presents the award winning BBC Radio 4 show “Positive Thinking” which tackles some of the UK’s biggest issues in an inventive, creative way. This is now commissioned for its 6th series and continues to attract a huge number of listeners in the 9am slot and on BBC Sounds,

Myska has written and presented a several documentaries for BBC Radio 4. This includes the contemporary history series Lives in a Landscape, an exploration of the pride and prejudice associated with having an ethnic name in Britain in What’s in a Name?, the stories of how childless women are viewed in society in “A Family Without a Child”, a two-part investigation into the poor working conditions of domiciliary care workers and failing social care system, an investigation into modern slavery in Britain “The hidden story of British Slavery”

She has been a regular news correspondent across all BBC News output and was named one of Europe’s 50 Most Influential People and was nominated for the European Journalist of the Year award in 2007. She was long-listed for the Amnesty International Journalism Awards the same year for her ground-breaking television investigation into child trafficking across E.U. borders. In 2012, Myska won the international Asian Woman of Achievement in the Media award.

 

Sangita is represented by Nick Canham