Mobeen Azhar

Mobeen Azhar (born 1980) is a British journalist, radio and television presenter, and filmmaker of Pakistani heritage. He produces investigative reports and films for the BBC exploring themes related to politics, true crime, extremism, counter terrorism and sexuality. He has presented and produced international documentaries for BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Three.

Azhar has fronted radio programmes on the BBC Asian Network BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live. Since 2022, he has presented the Outlook strand on the BBC World Service. He also presents the Lives Less Ordinary podcast made by the BBC World Service and available on BBC Sounds, Spotify and Apple.

In 2017, he won a British Academy Television Award for producing the BBC series Muslims Like Us and in 2020, he won a Royal Television Society Award for presenting BBC documentary Hometown: A Killing. In 2019, Azhar became a presenter on the new BBC Three show Plastic Surgery Undressed.

In 2019, Azhar became a founding partner in the independent production company Forest. In 2023, Azhar presented the documentary Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, centered on the sexual abuse claims against Johnny Kitagawa, which helped posthumously expose his crimes.

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