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Mishal Husain joins R4's Today programme

(July 2013)

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JW
JamesWorldNews
Mishal Husain has herself confirmed via Twitter that she will continue to present the Sunday BBC News at Ten. By default, it does seem to infer that she will be stepping down from Impact, as she does not make specific reference to it in her conversation.

For those wondering if shes already gone from BBC World News/Impact: she's merely abroad on holiday at the moment, again according to the same source.

Evening Standard Article.
HA
harshy Founding member
Bob Paisley posted:
harshy posted:
Yalda Hakim shes great why don't people like her, she has a great voice and she looks great.


To be fair, I haven't seen much of her because I don't see much of World News, but from what I have seen and what I've been told, she isn't very good. Not a great ad-libber, not particularly good at interviews. Maybe she's improved in the last few months but she didn't seem to be any great shakes to me.


I think shes very good I don't agree at all, I'm sorry, shes back from Yemen and presented on Friday and gave an interview on Impact, for her age and shes only 29, she can only get better.
MY
myan
harshy posted:
Bob Paisley posted:
harshy posted:
Yalda Hakim shes great why don't people like her, she has a great voice and she looks great.


To be fair, I haven't seen much of her because I don't see much of World News, but from what I have seen and what I've been told, she isn't very good. Not a great ad-libber, not particularly good at interviews. Maybe she's improved in the last few months but she didn't seem to be any great shakes to me.


I think shes very good I don't agree at all, I'm sorry, shes back from Yemen and presented on Friday and gave an interview on Impact, for her age and shes only 29, she can only get better.


For me, personally I have nothing much against, her, maybe I have been nitpicking at her blunders a little Smile . She probably isn't familiar with certain things like studio news presentation, hence the mistakes, what with she being new and all. I think she deserves some respect for work out in those dangerous places in the world. For a young and beautiful woman to be at those locations can be quite a risk. Like you said, probably on her way getting better with time.
SA
salfordjohn
harshy posted:
Bob Paisley posted:
harshy posted:
Yalda Hakim shes great why don't people like her, she has a great voice and she looks great.


To be fair, I haven't seen much of her because I don't see much of World News, but from what I have seen and what I've been told, she isn't very good. Not a great ad-libber, not particularly good at interviews. Maybe she's improved in the last few months but she didn't seem to be any great shakes to me.


I think shes very good I don't agree at all, I'm sorry, shes back from Yemen and presented on Friday and gave an interview on Impact, for her age and shes only 29, she can only get better.


She's 39. Not 29.
HA
harshy Founding member
salfordjohn posted:
harshy posted:
Bob Paisley posted:
harshy posted:
Yalda Hakim shes great why don't people like her, she has a great voice and she looks great.


To be fair, I haven't seen much of her because I don't see much of World News, but from what I have seen and what I've been told, she isn't very good. Not a great ad-libber, not particularly good at interviews. Maybe she's improved in the last few months but she didn't seem to be any great shakes to me.


I think shes very good I don't agree at all, I'm sorry, shes back from Yemen and presented on Friday and gave an interview on Impact, for her age and shes only 29, she can only get better.


She's 39. Not 29.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalda_Hakim

says she's 29
SA
salfordjohn
my mistake.. thought we were still talking about Mishal Hussain - sorry Smile
MY
myan
Anyone got an idea when Mishal will make her maiden appearance on R4?
AC
aconnell
myan posted:
Anyone got an idea when Mishal will make her maiden appearance on R4?


Autumn is the only time we've been told I think.
BP
Bob Paisley
harshy posted:
Bob Paisley posted:
harshy posted:
Yalda Hakim shes great why don't people like her, she has a great voice and she looks great.


To be fair, I haven't seen much of her because I don't see much of World News, but from what I have seen and what I've been told, she isn't very good. Not a great ad-libber, not particularly good at interviews. Maybe she's improved in the last few months but she didn't seem to be any great shakes to me.


I think shes very good I don't agree at all, I'm sorry, shes back from Yemen and presented on Friday and gave an interview on Impact, for her age and shes only 29, she can only get better.


Well it's all about opinions, isn't it?
DT
DTV
Mishal is still on BBC World News - she will be presenting Impact today.
JA
Jaxford
DTV posted:
Mishal is still on BBC World News - she will be presenting Impact today.

Not much of a surprise. She's could still be presenting for a few more weeks before she's heads off.

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