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 with so far 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 broadcast history to date has consisted of Family, which looked at Japanese people in Latin America and elsewhere; Business, which examined Korean family business in the US; and Politics, which focused on Chinese dissident activists in the US and in Europe. All three themes were interwoven into each episode.^[1]

The series was produced by Allison Puranik and edited by Maria Balinska.

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]

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