Asian Diasporas
Asian Diasporas is an intermittently broadcast forty-minute BBC Radio 4 documentary programme about Asian communities around the world, first transmitted in 2007 and so far consisting of three episodes.[1]
The programme has been introduced by Jatinder Verma, "himself a child of the diaspora",[1] who was born in Dar es Salaam and grew up in Kenya and was the first Asian theatre director to direct a play at Britain's National Theatre.
Asian Diasporas's broadcast history to date consists of Family which looked at Japanese people in Latin America and elsewhere; Business, which examined Korean family business in the USA; and Politics, which focused on Chinese dissident activists in the USA and Europe. All three themes are inter-woven into each episode.[1]
The series was produced by Allison Puranik and edited by Maria Balinska.
Use in academia
Parts of the audio of the series have been used to teach English as a second language to students at The Hong Kong University.[2]
The series was also featured as a primary source by James Hevia in a course about immigration at the University of North Carolina.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 "BBC World Service explores Asian Diasporas". indiantelevision.com. 9 August 2002. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ↑ "English for University Studies II (course syllabus for LSNG 1008)". The Hong Kong University. n.d. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ↑ Hevia, James (28 October 2013). "Diasporas and Transnational Migrant Networks: The Migration of People and the Global Issues of Multiculturalism(see slide # 32)". The University of North Carolina. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
External links
- BBC Radio 4 'Asian Diasporas' - home page on BBC R4 website.