Radio station, aimed at people of South Asian descent. The music and news comes from the main urban areas where there are significant communities with these backgrounds. It has production centres in Birmingham (The Mailbox) and London (Broadcasting House).
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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BBC Asian Network
Haroon Shamsher 1965 - 1999 founder of influential music collective Joi lived...
Saifullah 'Sam' Zaman, aka State of Bengal, DJ/music artist, 1965 - 2015, pio...
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada
Actrees, born Josephine Edwina Jacques at 125 High Street, Sandgate, Kent. She featured in some of the most successful British radio and television programmes and films. On radio she was in ITMA, E...
Poet. Born Belfast, Northern Ireland at 2 Brookhill Avenue. Joined the BBC in 1941 as scriptwriter and producer and it was with the BBC, checking out the sound effects down a mineshaft, that he c...
Actor. Born Richard Walter Jenkins at Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Wales. He was adopted by his English teacher Philip Burton, and took his surname. His first theatrical success was in Christopher Fry's 'The L...
Comedian and actor. Born Alfred Hawthorne Hill in Southampton. In his teens he worked as a milkman, an experience which he later put to good use in his hit song 'Ernie - The Fastest Milkman in the ...
Caricaturist and writer. Born 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington. In the Oscar Wilde circle of friends. He became successful and famous at aged 24, but never rich. Half brother and cousin to He...
Robert William Cunningham was born in 1891, the youngest of the three children of Robert Cunningham (1847-1921) and Mary Fanny Cunningham née Hurst (b. c1847). His father was a night watchman. His ...
Wesleyan minister and benefactor. Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1860. In 1869 he founded the Children's Home (now known as the charity Action for Children) to pro...
"men of Shadwell who gave their lives for King and country in the war 1914 - 1918."
Shoemaker and trade unionist. Born in Roborough, South Devon. His year of birth on the plaque (1820) contradicts most other sources. He was an itinerant shoemaker for several years before moving to...
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