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Ashleigh is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2025 and Researcher in Residence for BBC Radio 4's Free Thinking programme. She appears regularly on BBC Radio 4, bringing her expertise in military history, veteran advocacy, gender, and intelligence to some of Britain's leading ideas programmes.

BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking:
Peace

Joining Matthew Sweet alongside political scientist David Runciman and peace negotiator Gabrielle Rifkind, Ash considers what war and peace mean 80 years on from VE Day.

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BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking:
Revenge and Reconciliation

Joining Anne McElvoy alongside classicist Natalie Haynes and historian Duncan Wheeler, Ash explores how we balance justice, commemoration, and darker impulses when wars end.

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BBC Radio 4 Start the Week:
Afghanistan and the DRC 

Ash joins Shahidha Bari alongside BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet and author Michela Wrong for a discussion on conflict, testimony, and the long aftermath of war.

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BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking:
Double Lives

Ash joins Matthew Sweet to discuss what drives people to lead secret lives - from wartime undercover operatives, online anonumityy to lives lived in the closet.

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BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking: 
Women, Language and Experience

A special programme marking International Women's Day. Ash joins Shahidha Bari alongside authors Lauren Elkin, Sara Ahmed, Mary Wellesley, and Karen McCarthy Woolf.

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