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!
‘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 👇🏽🎧
📱🎥 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
👇🏽
🎙🎥 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
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 👉🏽
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
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
🤗 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.
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)
"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...
"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
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
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!
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
👇🏽
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 📺🌴
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
🌟
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
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:
”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.
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
👏🏼
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
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...”
🇮🇳 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
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 👇🏽🎧
💈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!
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.