{"id":8334,"date":"2015-10-29T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/29\/50-years-of-asian-programmes\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:44:10","slug":"50-years-of-asian-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/29\/50-years-of-asian-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Asian Programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Adil Ray takes a look back at how the early shows reflected the lives of British<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/image\/ArticleImages\/50-years-of-asian-programmes-467x184.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The issue of immigration is rarely out of the headlines and it was no different fifty years ago, when thousands of Indians and Pakistanis came to Britain.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In response, the BBC launched its Immigration Programme Unit designed to help newcomers cope with everyday situations.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Adil Ray, star and creator of the sitcom Citizen Khan, looks at how those early shows developed into programmes that reflect the lives of British Asians today.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcbreakfast\/videos\/vb.127439507270196\/1196256447055158\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adil Ray takes a look back at how the early shows reflected the lives of British &#13; &#13; The issue of immigration is rarely out of the headlines and it was no different fifty years ago, when thousands of Indians and Pakistanis came to Britain. &#13; &#13; In response, the BBC launched its Immigration Programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}