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Absolute honour to bring you something very special on
@BBCNewsbeat
tomorrow…
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Hosting a special
@BBCNewsbeat
with
@KensingtonRoyal
was a total privilege.
Most amazing of all were our guests, speaking openly about their
#mentalhealth
with the hope more are able to do the same.
Listen
@bbcsounds
and watch in full
@bbciplayer
👇🏽
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An absolute dream new job with
@BBCNewsbeat
, a brilliant team to join.
Having grown up listening, I’m very excited 🤩
We are thrilled to announce
@PriaRai
as the newest presenter for
@BBCNewsbeat
.
Pria will be bringing you the news across BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Asian Network from today!
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It was so great to give Antonio, Emma, Ben and Abigail the chance to speak openly to
@KensingtonRoyal
about their mental health journeys.
Our special
@BBCNewsbeat
at 1245 |
@BBCR1
@1Xtra
@bbcasiannetwork
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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We did it!
10/10 team effort to get
@BBCNewsbeat
faded up from Birmingham for the first time today 🥳
🎧
Merch keeping us on beat 🥰
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🤩 Had a whole year doing a DREAM JOB
@BBCNewsbeat
and I accidentally came dressed as the wall 🤩
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👳🏽♂️😷 Sikhs with turbans and beards, like Darshan, have struggled with face masks.
His daughter-in-law may just have solved the problem 👇🏽
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First on set live was less nerve wracking thanks to Simon being Simon!
@BBCSimonMcCoy
will be missed 👋🏼
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It’s been a total joy doing the radio on
@bbc5live
with
@SteffanPowell
for the last couple days🎙️✨
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Tell us you’ve got a brand new studio without.. oh wait 🙊🤩
@BBCNewsbeat
is excited in our new home brummie home 🫶🏼
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‘I cried in my room’
‘Don’t feel like I can go for a walk alone’
‘Sadly I don’t feel safe anymore’
Just some of what I heard from our listeners today on
@bbcasiannetwork
. The team worked incredibly 👇🏽🎧
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An absolute 10/10 line up 💥 a big honour, this year especially. Thank you
@asianmediaaward
x
Outstanding Young Journalist 2020 Finalists -
@AmritITV
-
@ITVCentral
,
@Manisha_bot
- Freelance,
@amaniibrahimi1
-
@ITVNews
,
@_kRaay
-
@BBCNews
,
@RavNandraITV
-
@ITVMeridian
,
@RenukaOdedra
- Freelance,
@PriaRia
-
@BBCAsianNetwork
,
@nimrashahid
-2020 Google News Fellow & Freelance
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🌟
@bbcasiannetwork
newsbies🌟
Great to be nominated for
@asianmediaaward
young journalist, but it’s all about this KICK ASS TEAM and many more 💃🏻👏🏼
@SejalAsar
@Journo_Raj
@TheRealSuneil
@BBC_Arif
@siva_thasan
@SarikaUnadkat
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📱🎥 Self shot on my phone, made easy by the gorgeous work of
@WahidMaryam
and photography from her first trip to Pakistan.
She wanted to know what life in Lahore would have been like. Snippet from
@BBCNews
👇🏽
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😭🫣🤩😅🥰🥺
cliche, but seriously, what great company 🫶🏼
NOMINEES FOR BEST NEW PRESENTER:
Alex Kapranos
@absoluteradio
Alyx Holcombe
@bbcintroducing
Dan Jones
@somethinelse
Harriet Rose
@KISSFMUK
Kathy Burke
@somethinelse
Marianna Spring
@mariannaspring
Pria Rai
@bbcnewsbeat
Sam Thompson
@hitsradiouk
Zak and Jules
@prisonradiouk
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🎙🎥 Someone made a point of saying how great it is to see two Asian women out working together - we hadn’t even stopped to think 🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️
@siva_thasan
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Last ever time behind this mic doing the newwwssss
@bbcasiannetwork
😱
On w/
@AnkurDesai_
til 6!🎙
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For one day only! Back sitting in for
@AnkurDesai_
🎙
Let’s have some fun 3-6pm
@bbcasiannetwork
! 🤩
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🌟 Fabulous company, huge honour to be shortlisted 💁🏽♀️👏🏽💁🏽♂️
Outstanding Young Journalist 2019 Finalists -
Mojo Abidi
@MojoAbidi
,
Charanpreet Khaira
@ckkhaira
,
Miriam Walker Khan
@mimwalkerkhan
,
Ravneet Nandra
@RavNandraITV
,
Pria Rai
@PriaRai
,
Inzamam Rashid
@inzyrashid
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The
#newsbabs
are real and happening!
Can’t wait to have the whole
@BBCNewsbeat
gang together live from Birmingham 🤩
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Entries are open for
@BBCYoungReport
2023!
Amazing opportunity for 11-18 year olds to share their story on the BBC. Honoured to be a judge this year 🤩
Info here 👉🏽
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To be nominated for a
@radioacademy
award in this category is wild, big cheer to all the winners & big love to
@BBCNewsbeat
, a bloody brilliant and creative gang to work with x
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London's Brick Lane - famous for curry and the heartland of British Bangladeshis 🇧🇩
But will gentrification shape its legacy? How can you develop a place and keep its identity intact?
Collab w/
@siva_thasan
🎥 across
@BBCNews
@bbcasiannetwork
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This was fun! Sitting in the
@BBCNewsbeat
chair, made to sound good by a 10/10 team and Team GB brining the gold 🥇
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🤗 in for
@QasaAlom
this week 🤗
Today’s❓: Do you feel proud seeing the turban being referred to as a crown in EastEnders?
Later we’re talking racism in the NHS and
@HarjapBhangal
will answer all your immigration q’s.
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When
@MetMattTaylor
let me into his
@bbcweather
studio…
Fair to say, he had the last word!
☀️ Why is it so hot?
☀️ How worried should we be?
@BBCNewsbeat
team effort (aka stitch up)
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👇🏼👇🏼
#Partition
will never be an easy conversation, but for Ishita it’s much better late than never... 🇧🇩🇮🇳🇵🇰
"I'd kind of always known that my grand parents had been affected by partition"
Do you speak to you family about the Partition of 1947?
Ishita and her mum decided it was about time they did...
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Another week done behind the best mic in the world 🥰
Ps imagine you could listen to
@BBCNewsbeat
anytime you like right here ➡️
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"Black women... Asian, White, Latina, Native American women...
...Black women, who are too often overlooked but so often prove they are the backbone of our democracy"
#KamalaHarris
#Election2020
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Excited to be keeping the chair warm for
@QasaAlom
this week, give me company!
Today:
⁉️ Are Asian couples able to have the wedding they want?
⁉️ Does life have no meaning without belief in God?
& get q’s in for immigration lawyer
@HarjapBhangal
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Had a holiday, forgot to buy holiday treats. Soz
@BBCNewsbeat
gang, thought having me back IS the treat 👀
Was for me anyway 🫶🏼
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Amazing stories of how
@1Xtra
has shaped and shouted about black music & culture for 20 years 🖤
A special
@BBCNewsbeat
w/
@Reece_Parkinson
🎙
✨OG newsreader
@CharleneWhite
✨
@RemiBurgz
&
@DJTarget
✨
@TheBugzyMalone
w/
@samtomharris
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What's it like to be a young
#BritishAsian
#woman
in 2018? What challenges do you face? And what are you grateful for?
I want to hear from you for a
@bbcasiannetwork
special... my DMs are open or email me!
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Somehow got convinced to do Access All Apps! 😬🫣
@KatieThistleton
@jordannorth1
Coming up next
@BBCR1
🎧
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From all of us, for all of you 🙏🏿👇🏽💪🏾
We know coronavirus is affecting BAME communities disproportionately.
Here is an important message from
@BBCAsianNetwork
.
Please share 🙏
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Getting to speak directly with listeners has felt even more key this past week, allowing opinions and feelings to be heard.
@BBCNewsbeat
&
@bbcasiannetwork
are always all ears. Sharing on
@BBCNews
👇🏽
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Complaints that
#LoveIsland
shows “controlling behaviour” on screen.
ITV said they’re always looking to expand their training and they treat islanders’ well-being seriously.
@BBCNews
snip 📺🌴
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Great to meet this brainy lot, added bonus is the collab with the best shoot edit in town
@siva_thasan
for
@bbcasiannetwork
&
@BBCNews
@MuslamicMakers
@DeenDevelopers
📱💻
Apps and hacks…young Muslims are turning to tech to help people better understand Islam. It's been run by
@MuslamicMakers
and
@DeenDevelopers
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The hardest I've ever worked in a student bar!
🎤| Delighted to have the BBC’s
@PriaRai
@bbcasiannetwork
reporting live from our
@aston_union
about the return to university and a very different sort of welcome week for our students
@AstonUniversity
✅
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All the years I did ballet I don't remember another Asian person, which, in some ways is mad when you think how big dance is more widely in our culture. Go Kamal and fab work
@siva_thasan
🌟
Kamal Singh is set to be the first Indian to attend the prestigious
@ENBSchool
– with a little help from
@iHrithik
and
@kapoorkkunal
🩰🇮🇳✨
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One of us has the fun stuff 🎧
One of us has some stuff you should know 🙋🏻♀️
We both have a light up penguin and the Friday feeling 🎄✨
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Over 50% of the British Asians we asked admit to acting a little bit less Asian to better fit in with society.
Can Asians in the UK ever be confident in who they are?
Get involved today on
@bbcasiannetwork
British Asians more socially conservative than rest of UK, survey suggests
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Drive time
@bbcasiannetwork
, let’s goooo!
Last show of the week with all the music you love and conversations on some of the day’s biggest stories 😁🎧
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Please take a few minutes to listen to this, on Male mental health.
It’s something I know can have a devastating impact and it’s so important to talk about openly x
@bbcasiannetwork
@ArunKapur47
#male
#mentalhealth
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South Asian anti-black racism: 'We don't marry black people' - necessary piece from
@siva_thasan
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Stop sharing it. Now. Please. His family do not need that and neither does the world
#Smethwick
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Back for another week, 3-6pm.
⚽️🏏 Liv/Pak fan chats to Man U/India fan 😬
💥 Brand new track of the week
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🎙 Live in Leeds!!
GOOD LUCK to every one of you getting results today 🤞🏼 x
Today: A-Level results are out! We'll be speaking with our News Reporter
@PriaRai
who will be with some students in Leeds! Hear my
#TrackOfTheWeek
by
@akullofficial
, we bring back my chat with
@iamwill
in
#HarpzHardrive
and lots of big tunes!
@bbcasiannetwork
- You In?
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Join me on the Big Debate today.. excited to be looking after things for
@qasalom
🎧
Listen here:
I KNOW you’ve been talking about this one... 👇🏽
Yesterday MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi asked the Prime Minister to comment on the protests happening in India. Mr Johnson seemed to think it was an issue related to tensions between India and Pakistan.
Listen to the Big Debate show here:
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”It felt like something far away... and it just took away my dad”
A 22 year old who lost his dad to coronavirus.
In self-isolation himself, he told me about grieving behind closed doors.
🎧👇🏽
@bbcasiannetwork
exclusive.
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Coming up
@bbcasiannetwork
💥 wicked to chat to
@Sulaiman
of
@SlimSulaiman
- magicians behind my track of the week, Ja Ja Re with 💯
🎧
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Live on
@bbcasiannetwork
with
@SheetalParmar
in Brussels 🇪🇺🇧🇪
@SHKMEP
@Steven_Woolfe
@NeenaGmep
@ddalton40
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My girl (I mean, esteemed colleague) doing her thing for
@BBCNews
at a Barking food bank helping the Asians too afraid to come for help.
👏🏼
@siva_thasan
👏🏼
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Coming up on the show, a conversation on what it means to see the reality of the lives and histories of many of our parents and grandparents - and what we can learn.
#Defiance
@bbcasiannetwork
🎧
‘Here to stay. Here to fight.’
#Defiance
: Fighting the Far Right examines the political and social struggles faced by Britain’s Asian community between 1976 and 1981.
The series starts Monday 8th April, 9pm on
@Channel4
@rizwanahmed
@groupm_motion
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Nothing short or humbling being at
@AsianWomanFest
. Loved all my chats with all you queens 👑🔥💁🏽♀️
The work of power house
@ShaniDhanda
👏🏼
❣️More coming Monday on
@bbcasiannetwork
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Live in Leicester for special
@bbcasiannetwork
@BBCNews
coverage of India’s covid crisis.
How are the British Indian community feeling?
Jiten says "it's really frightening, it's scary to see family members having to suffer like this and seeing what you see on social media...”
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Fab day
@saltleyacademy
for
@BBCNews
on
#COP26
Youth Day.
We’re talking air pollution around city schools and access to green spaces 🌳
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Coming up! 👑
@KensingtonRoyal
visit
@elondonmosque
to meet the volunteers who got to work during the pandemic.
I’ll tell you all about it
@bbcasiannetwork
w/
@qasalom
at 1015 ✨
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£2 for an espresso. €0.80 in Italy. And you can guess which is better...
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🇮🇳 a look at Birmingham and Scotland farmer protests this weekend
⁉️ Do you think it’s important for kids to have Asian teachers??
And - Smear tests... do you put yours off??
@JoTrust
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Honest and humorous film,
@GAZAdocumentary
is beautifully difficult. Highly recommend.
@BerthaDocHouse
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Keeping the chair warm for
@AnkurDesai_
today.
You were all flicking between love island and the footy last night.. I’ve got them both on the show today so you don’t have to go anywhere 👇🏽🎧
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💈CALL FOR FRESH TRIM PHOTOS💈
💇🏽♀️ If you’re making a trip to the hairdressers or barbers this weekend, we would love you to share a before and after picture 💇🏽♂️
For
@bbcasiannetwork
to use - DM or email me!
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People of Bangladeshi and Pakistani, Indian, and Mixed ethnicities also had statistically significantly raised odds of death compared with those of White ethnicity.
@ONS
More coming up on
@bbcasiannetwork
from 10am.
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🥳 FRESHERS 🥳.... or maybe not.
Live from an unusually quiet welcome week
@AstonUniversity
as students figure out the uni experience v staying
#covid
safe.
@bbcasiannetwork
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The collab you’ve been waiting for…
#BBCNewscast
x
@BBCNewsbeat
!
@calumsleslie
and I were joined by;
🥊
@RealCFrampton
talking mental health in Northern Ireland
Plus, the OG
@ChrisMasonBBC
&
@JamesTGallagher
too.
🎧
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Chop chop cameo from
@BBC_Arif
💇🏽♂️
Lockdown locks got the chop this weekend for many of you in England. Here’s some of the fresh trims you sent in... 💇♀️
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