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Dame Meera Syal says BBC was confused by British Asian sketch pitch
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Dame Meera Syal: 12-Years Caring For My Parents & Surviving Divorce
What was said
"Then he went to the BBC, and they said, "I don't know what that is." "said." Wow, are Asians funny?"
Dame Meera Syal recalls that co-creator Anil Gupta pitched a UK Asian-led sketch comedy to the BBC and met confusion. She says British Asians felt largely invisible on television then, and that the team made a radio version before a TV pilot.
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- Speaker
- Dame Meera Syal · guest
- Programme
- Begin Again with Davina McCall
- Episode
- Dame Meera Syal: 12-Years Caring For My Parents & Surviving Divorce
- Clip time
- 34:37
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