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Hardeep Singh Kohli's Making Himself at Home

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07/01/2017

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hardeep Singh Kohli's Making Himself at Home

Hardeep Singh Kohli assesses how TV has reflected changing multi-cultural Britain.

Made for 4 Extra. Growing up watching TV that was trying to reflect changing multi-cultural Britain, Hardeep Singh Kohli assesses what progress has been made.

The dominance of the TV in all our lives has paralleled the changes in the racial make-up of the UK. Hardeep Singh Kohli is a child of Punjabi migrants and grew up in Glasgow in the 1970's and 80's watching television programmes which in many cases tried and failed to reflect the new relationships between white and black Britain

Hardeep explores the programmes he sat on his sofa with his family watching like Mind Your Language and Curry and Chips, in many ways they are the programme that define that era of comedy, but what was it like to be a migrant and see yourself and your family caricatured ?

But the TV watching Hardeep grew up to become somebody who worked and helped shape the TV of the new era when Asians weren't played by blacked-up actors and our perceptions weren't defined by white people but by comedies like Goodness Gracious Me and Hardeeps own comedy Meet the Magoos - the tables had been turned 

Hardeep will sit down with Anil Gupta who grew up in that same era on how the recall the less then golden age of TV comedy and how it affected them or whether they laughed along with the joke in their living room

They will share how it influenced their comedy and view on multicultural Britain - in Anil's case he went onto help develop Goodness Gracious Me and Citizen Khan

As we are enter a new era in multi-cultural Britain Hardeep with guests such as Anil and writer Sathnam Sanghera discuss how British TV has reflected the changes in society through drama and comedy.

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