Luton Town: No Place Like Home

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Ankur Desai is in Luton to look at the impact the football club's promotion is having.

Ankur Desai, who grew up in Luton, returns to his hometown to find out how the football club's promotion to the Premier League is impacting those on the ground.

Ahead of their first home game in the Premier League, Asian Network's Ankur Desai, who grew up in Luton, returns to his hometown to find out how the football club's promotion is impacting those on the ground. Ankur hears from the young British Asians who say they're revitalised by Luton's success and tries to understand if the beautiful game can bring together a town often painted as divided.

Luton Town: No Place Like Home: 2. A Town of Two Halves

2. A Town of Two Halves

BBC Asian Network - Luton Town: No Place Like Home, 2. A Town of Two Halves

Ankur Desai is in Luton talking to an imam and former EDL member, before a football first.

Ankur Desai is in Luton ahead of their first home Premier League match hearing from Imam Dawood and his unlikely friendship with former EDL member Darren Carroll.

After relegation heartache, financial meltdown and penalty shoot-out drama, Luton Town FC have finally made it to the Premier League. But, ahead of their first home game we hear from those living in the town about some of its issues with extremism and racial division. And we hear about an unlikely friendship struck by Imam Dawood and former EDL member Darren Carroll.

Luton Town: No Place Like Home was made by Athar Ahmad with Tania Sangha, Ankur Desai and Ben Mundy. The spoken word was by RKZ.

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