Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty

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Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty is a Journalist, Presenter, Public Speaker and Documentary maker, whose work primarily focuses on power dynamics, public accountability and the intersection of Media and Law. She has become known as a one-woman production powerhouse, building complete multi-platform ecosystems, and her work across Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Journalism often speaks to younger audiences.

At 24 years old, Anoushka pitched, presented, and produced the BBC Sounds hit podcast Diddy on Trial to international success, reaching number one on the UK Apple Podcasts chart, as well as entering the top five in both the United States and Australia.

Building on that success, the 2026 ARIA Award Winning Podcast Fame Under Fire for BBC Sounds was born. On Fame Under Fire, Anoushka takes the model she created with the Diddy trial and applies to other celebrity court cases. She secured exclusive interviews with the Macrons lawyers, broke the news that Brigitte Macron was to show scientific and photographic evidence in a court in Denver to prove she’s a woman, was the first to cover Kanye Wests Victims, and launched the Epstein Fact or Fiction episode, answering listeners direct questions with deep dives into the DOJ files. In 2026 she’s covering Kanye West, Russel Brand, Tupac, and D4VD.

Alongside long-form journalism and podcasting, she creates accompanying content across TikTok, Instagram, BBC iPlayer, and BBC’s YouTube, expanding stories beyond traditional broadcasting, and reaching millions of younger digital-first viewers. Her approach combines investigative journalism with platform-native storytelling, allowing audiences to engage with complex legal and cultural stories across multi platforms.

Anoushka began working with the BBC in 2018 at just 17 years old, where she made her first documentary, exploring Race and the University experience, for BBC Radio 4; marking the beginning of a career centred on socially conscious storytelling and cultural analysis.

A year later in 2019 she produced and presented, Degrees of Love, for BBC Radio 4; a Documentary programme following teenage relationships and exploring whether they would survive the move to university. It was this documentary that earned her national recognition including features in The Guardian and The Radio Times as well as winning her an award at The New York Radio Awards for Best Student Documentary.

In 2021 whilst at University she presented the documentary Covid on Campus for BBC, which examined the impact of the pandemic on student life across the UK.

In 2023, she presented No Satisfaction for the BBC World Service as part of The Documentary strand, further establishing her reputation for combining investigative reporting with cultural commentary, and receiving recommendations in the Radio Times, Times (x2), The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and The Telegraph.

After officially joining the BBC in 2023, Anoushka began presenting Witness History, drawing on her academic background as a pan-Africanist historian, which she studied at University.

In 2024 and at just 24 years old, as part of Diddy on Trial, she was deployed to New York City for two months alone to provide daily court updates, record the podcast, I-player, YouTube and the daily socials assets for BBC News and BBC Sounds which she also fronted. During this time she established herself as THE BBC expert on the case and whilst in the states Anoushka was regularly seen on CNN and other news networks to provide expert analysis and commentary.

As of 2026, Anoushka is regularly heard on The Today Programme, 5 Live, Front Row, Newscast, The News Channel, and more. Across her Journalism and Digital storytelling, her work has generated more than 15 million views for the BBC and over 7 million views across her personal platforms.

You may also find Anoushka co-presenting programmes such as When It
Hits the Fan on BBC Radio 4. Through her work dealing with high profile crisis communications teams, her understanding of the evolving media landscape, and her perspective as a member of Gen Z herself, she has become an emerging voice on how public figures and institutions build trust, tell compelling stories, and engage younger audiences in the age of the “perma-crisis”. Her work frequently explores the tension between reputation, accountability, virality and modern audience behaviour online.