BACK IN TIME FOR BIRMINGHAM
ommissioned to coincide with the Commonwealth Games‘living history’ strand explores the experiences of South Asian Britons. An estimated 1.1 million people live in Birmingham, and a quarter of them have Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi or Sri Lankan heritage – but what would their lives have been like in previous decades? Finding out are the Sharma family from Solihull, who begin by heading back to the 1950s. Just how do you cook traditional recipes at home when local shops don’t sell chilli? All four episodes originally aired across a single week in June.
