Asian Nation launches today – What’s it really like to British Asian today?
What Asian Network are doing:
From Monday 30th July the BBC Asian Network kicks off the most ambitious snapshot of British Asian life ever undertaken. Asian Nation on BBC Asian Network is a season of programming finding out what Asians in the UK are really concerned about sixty years since India won its independence and Pakistan became a nation in its own right.
On the Asian Network we will be airing a season of specially commissioned programmes over the 3 week period from 30th July- 17th August with their own themes of what is concerning British Asians today. full details available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/indiapakistan/about.shtml#bbcasian As well as asking listeners to send in their stories we'll be peppering the days output with 5 minute docu junkets of stories we've harvested from hundreds of British Asians over the past few months on how they feel.
As well as asking listeners to send in their stories we'll be peppering the days output with 5 minute docu junkets of stories we've harvested from hundreds of British Asians over the past few months on how they feel.
National poll: ( launched today )
To mark the launch of this season we have commissioned a poll amongst British Asians on how they feel about being British- very timely considering what is happening currently. Over a third of British born Asians don't feel British despite being permanent UK residents.