Lucy Ash began her radio career as a producer in the BBC Moscow bureau in 1990. She lived in a tiny flat in a massive Stalinist skyscraper from where she had a bird’s eye view of the White House during the aborted putsch of August 1991.

She subsequently covered the collapse of the Soviet Union and two years later, Yeltsin’s assault on the Russian Parliament. In 1994 she returned to London to join BBC Radio 4’s Eurofile, reporting mainly from Russia and Eastern Europe.

Lucy is now a presenter at BBC Radio Current Affairs with a special interest in Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is a regular presenter and reporter on the Crossing Contintents programme. In 2010 she made a report about a Russian human rights campaigner murdered in Chechnya which was awarded both a Sony Gold award and a Foreign Press Assoc award.