In broadcasting, Anita has written and presented programmes, as well as appearing as a guest panellist, critic and commentator on several channels including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service, Sky, ITV and ABC Australia. Programmes she has appeared on include BBC Radio 4’s Today , Front Row, Open Book, Ramblings, Tweet of the Day and BBC Radio 3’s Essay and The Verb.
Selected Portfolio
BBC Radio 4 – Tweet of the Day – Anita Sethi on the Lapwing (broadcast 1st June 2025) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cz7t
BBC Radio 4 – Ramblings with Clare Balding – walking programme, ‘Hope Valley with Anita Sethi’ (2023) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rq4p
BBC Radio 3 – The Essay – (2022) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00182c5 ‘Anita Sethi on Anne Brontë’
– exploring how the landscape shaped the lives and literature of the famous literary sisters.
BBC Radio 4 – Front Row – cultural critic (2021 – present-day) – on nature writing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v2qv
– cultural critic (February 2024) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001whk8
BBC Radio 4 – Any Questions? Politics and current affairs programme (2023) – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fvq16b
BBC Radio 4 – Today programme
2025 – Interviewed alongside wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan about the power of nature on the physical and mental health.
2022 – Commissioned to record a dispatch on: ‘What makes a British beach special?’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0chdns6
BBC Radio 3 – The Verb
2021 – Episode – Experiments in Living (on deep time, the natural world and listening as an act of restoration).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000y7mf
2023 Episode – Seductive Places
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hntd
Anita Sethi 