Desi DNA
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Desi DNA is a British
television show on the BBC
covering Desi
(British Asian
) art, culture and entertainment, currently broadcasting its fifth series in 2008.
In 2004 Desi DNA received the Best Lifestyle Programme award from the Royal Television Society
.
The show currently broadcasts on BBC Two
and is co-presented by Adil Ray
, Anita Rani
and Nihal Arthanyake
with additional contributions by Nikki Bedi
, Sonia Deol
, Bobby Friction
, Murtz
and a number of other presenters. Waheed Khan
, Irshad Ashraf
and Sangeeta Sehdev have all been directors on the show.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
television show on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
covering Desi
Desi
Desi or Deshi refers to the people, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and, increasingly, to the people, cultures, and products of their diaspora. Desi countries include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh...
(British Asian
British Asian
British Asian is a term used to describe British citizens who descended from mainly South Asia, also known as South Asians in the United Kingdom...
) art, culture and entertainment, currently broadcasting its fifth series in 2008.
In 2004 Desi DNA received the Best Lifestyle Programme award from the Royal Television Society
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
.
The show currently broadcasts on BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
and is co-presented by Adil Ray
Adil Ray
Adil Ray is a British radio and television presenter, and actor born 26 April 1974 in Birmingham, England.- Background :Adil Ray is of Pakistani and Kenyan origin. He began his career as a radio host on a pirate radio station in Huddersfield while studying at the University of Huddersfield and...
, Anita Rani
Anita Rani
Anita Rani is an English born ethnic Indian radio and television presenter and journalist.-Early life:Rani was born and raised in Bradford in Yorkshire, to a mother of Sikh origins, and Hindu father...
and Nihal Arthanyake
DJ Nihal
DJ Nihal is an English radio and TV presenter, as well as club night promoter and DJ, currently broadcasting on BBC Radio 1, BBC Asian Network and since August 6, 2010 BBC Radio 5 Live...
with additional contributions by Nikki Bedi
Nikki Bedi
Nikki Bedi is a television and radio presenter, born Nikki Moolgaoker in Aylesbury to an Indian father of Maharashtrian origin and an English mother. Famously married to Kabir Bedi from 1992 to 2005, retaining her married name after an amicable divorce, her first marriage was to food stylist...
, Sonia Deol
Sonia Deol
Sonia Deol is a British radio and television presenter who has presented the Sonia Deol Show on the BBC Asian Network.-Background:Born as Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu in England to Punjabi Sikh parents...
, Bobby Friction
Bobby Friction
Paramdeep Singh Sehdev , better known as Bobby Friction, is a DJ, television presenter and radio presenter from west London.He studied Contemporary Arts at The Nottingham Trent University....
, Murtz
Murtz
Murtaza Ali, better known as Murtz, is a British Asian television and radio presenter.After a long running television series Mutz Cutz with the UK's largest Indian Satellite channel Zee TV, Murtz became a recognised personality establishing himself with a massive cult following to thousands of...
and a number of other presenters. Waheed Khan
Waheed Khan
Waheed Khan is a documentary television director working in British television.Of Pakistani parentage he originally worked as an actor but switched careers while waiting for acting roles and becoming a camera operator worked on documentaries for BBC Current Affairs eventually directing and...
, Irshad Ashraf
Irshad Ashraf
Irshad Ashraf is a British documentary film maker with a reputation for making stylish, visually innovative documentary films about history, art and politics....
and Sangeeta Sehdev have all been directors on the show.