Silver Street

Silver Street

"Silver Street" is a radio soap opera, the first such to be aimed at the British South Asian community, and is broadcast on the BBC Asian Network. It was introduced in 2004 as part of the Sonia Deol show, which was replaced from 24 April 2006 by the Anita Rani show, and until 12 May 2006 each episode had an early evening repeat at 19.20–19.30 in the Drive Programme. Since 15 May 2006 the serial has been broadcast from 13.30 to 13.40 each weekday during the Nikki Bedi show. The Omnibus edition of the show is broadcast every Sunday between 16.30 and 17.00. In 2007 it became one of the first BBC Asian Network programmes to be available as a podcast and is currently the most downloaded show on the network. On April 21st 2008 BBC Radio Leicester began to broadcast current episodes of the show after a few weeks of highlights and compilations to introduce the stories.

Storylines are focused on the lives of a primarily British South Asian community in an English town of unspecified name and location, with themes generally related to issues that affect the daily lives of British South Asians and their neighbours.

Many guest stars have appeared in the programme, including Saeed Jaffrey as the family doctor of the Chauhan family at a point in the story when the character Roopa Chauhan was struggling with anorexia, Sonia Deol (as herself) popping into a shop on the street on one occasion, and Toyah Willcox [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/11_november/28/toyah.shtml] playing the estranged mother of major "Silver Street" character Sean Brady.

Main cast list

Character (actor)
*Rita Chauhan (Bharti Patel)
*Jas Chauhan (Hema Mangoo)
*Roopa Chauhan (Rakhee Thakrar)
*Arun Chauhan (Naithan Ariane)
*Kamla Dattani (Surendra Kochar)
*Mushtaq Jilani (Paul Bhattacharjee)
*Zenab Jilani (Sudha Bhuchar)
*Rozena Hussaini (Pooja Ghai)
*Sameer Hussaini (Alex Caan)
*Pervaiz Akhtar (Shajait Khan)
*Nadia Akhtar (Sohm Kapila)
*Zak Akhtar (Jetinder Summan)
*Mary Brady (Carole Nimmons)
*Pete Brady (Jez Thomas)
*Sean Brady (Lloyd Thomas)
*Brian Kavanagh (Gerard McDermott)
*Kuljit Singh (Sartaj Garewal)
*Sway Holloway (Mark Monero)
*Jodie Howard (Vineeta Rishi)
*Jaggy Singh (Jay Kiyani)
*Simran Kaur (Balvinder Sopal)
*Wahid Masud (Saeed Jaffrey)
*Shazia Malik (Shobu Kapoor)
*Ambika (Ayesha Dharker)

pecial appearances

*Nikki Sanderson as Faye Dunbar
*Ian Watkins (Steps) as Dave Thomas
*John Altman as Mr Walsh
*Kim Vithana as Farrah Malik
*Pal Aron as Akram Malik
*J Skillz as Himself
*John Abraham as Himself
*John Craven as Himself
*Raghav as Himself
*Hard Kaur as Herself
*MC Raa as Himself
*Anita Dobson as Sandra Lester

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/silverstreet/ Silver Street Homepage]


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