Her great-grandfather, Sheikh Babiker Badri, fought against Kitchener's British forces at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 and pioneered women's education in Sudan.
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The programme was a replacement for the nightly political programme The Midnight Hour, and like its predecessor, was initially presented by a team of single-presenter journalists, rotated nightly, consisting of Zeinab Badawi, Michael Dobbs, Andrew Neil and Steve Richards.
On 14 September 2012 Verzilov was interviewed by the BBC's Zeinab Badawi for a full programme of HARDtalk.
He is a frequent commentator in international and British media, including live interviews on Al Jazeera and BBC World TV programs such as World News Today with Kirsty Lang and Zeinab Badawi, and GMT with George Alagiah; BBC World Service radio programs including Europe Today, World Have Your Say and Reporting Religion; BBC Radio's Jeremy Vine Show, the Today Programme and Beyond Belief.