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Finding a New British Asian Sound on BBC Radio

The South Asian diaspora in Britain and BBC Radio

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Authors:
  1. Liam McCarthy

    1. University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

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  • Explores how BBC local radio connected with South Asian communities
  • Examines the current debates about institutional racism at the BBC
  • Argues the BBC is still failing the South Asian diaspora in Britain

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This book explores the contrasting responses to the South Asian diaspora in Britain of BBC local radio and BBC network radio. It highlights the hidden history of how BBC local radio stations developed a schedule of five thousand hours a year of programmes targeted at South Asian communities in England. 
 
Local radio stations at the periphery of the BBC built deep and influential connections with marginalised Asian communities, creating the BBC Asian Network in 1989 and played an influential part in building local social cohesion. This contrasts with central BBC policy that reveals a management culture resistant to change and unable to embrace an increasingly diverse Britain - creating a problematic legacy for the BBC. 
 
Finding a New British Asian Sound brings new insights into current debates around policy and institutional racism at the BBC, where South Asian programming on local and network radio remains at risk of closure. 



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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Liam McCarthy
    Pages 1-16

  3. BBC Radio and the South Asian Diaspora

    • Liam McCarthy
    Pages 17-51

  4. Failing the Diversity Test: The BBC and the Legacy of a Policy Vacuum

    • Liam McCarthy
    Pages 53-86

  5. Finding a New ‘British Asian Sound’

    • Liam McCarthy
    Pages 87-119

  6. Making a British Asian Sound: The Pioneers of Asian Radio on the BBC

    • Liam McCarthy
    Pages 121-154

  7. Networking the British Asian Sound: The BBC Asian Network and BBC Local Radio

    • Liam McCarthy
    Pages 155-186

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 187-198
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Liam McCarthy

About the author

Dr Liam McCarthy is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. During a 25-year career as a journalist at the BBC he was Station Manager of three BBC local radio stations and Head of BBC Local Radio Training. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Finding a New British Asian Sound on BBC Radio

  • Book Subtitle: The South Asian diaspora in Britain and BBC Radio

  • Authors: Liam McCarthy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35620-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35619-3Published: 22 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35622-3Due: 23 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35620-9Published: 21 September 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 198

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Media and Communication, British Culture, Diaspora

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