{"id":26970,"date":"2018-07-25T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=26970"},"modified":"2018-07-25T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:05:10","slug":"my-asian-family-the-musical-bbc-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/my-asian-family-the-musical-bbc-four\/","title":{"rendered":"My Asian Family \u2013 The Musical BBC Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Asian Family \u2013 The Musical tells the epic and inspiring story of one Asian family, the Thakrars, across three generations. Just 12 of them came to Britain in 1972 with nothing, fleeing for their lives from Idi Amin\u2019s Uganda. Since then they\u2019ve not just made Britain their home, they\u2019ve prospered \u2013 finding jobs, love and new lives. Now they number ninety members across three generations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26971 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image008-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image008-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/image008.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their story is followed from the beginning of their new lives as immigrants in the seventies through song and dance, in a gloriously choreographed, visual feast of movement and<\/p>\n<p>Their story is followed from the beginning of their new lives as immigrants in the seventies through song and dance, in a gloriously choreographed, visual feast of movement and colour. The unique songs bring each family member\u2019s story to life.The Thakrars have maintained their Hindu religion and preserved cultural traditions at the same time as adapting to British ways. Jyoti, the youngest daughter of 10 siblings who originally came from Uganda, narrates their story wondering whether it was the birth of her great niece Rianna in 2002, that tipped the balance and made Leicester the first majority Asian city in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Thakrars have maintained their Hindu religion and preserved cultural traditions at the same time as adapting to British ways. Jyoti, the youngest daughter of 10 siblings who originally came from Uganda, narrates their story wondering whether it was the birth of her great niece Rianna in 2002, that tipped the balance and made Leicester the first majority Asian city in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>My Asian Family \u2013 The Musical is part of the BBC\u2019s Big British Asian Summer season.<\/p>\n<p>My Asian Family \u2013 The Musical is part of the BBC\u2019s Big British Asian Summer season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Asian Family \u2013 The Musical tells the epic and inspiring story of one Asian family, the Thakrars, across three generations. Just 12 of them came to Britain in 1972 with nothing, fleeing for their lives from Idi Amin\u2019s Uganda. Since then they\u2019ve not just made Britain their home, they\u2019ve prospered \u2013 finding jobs, love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":26972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[401,51,46,53],"tags":[292,1291,1290],"class_list":["post-26970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-events","category-features","category-latest","tag-bbc-four","tag-musical","tag-my-asian-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}