Asian Teenager + Dilip Hiro

After writing an article in New Society about ‘Young Asians in Britain’, Dilip Hiro was asked by Charles Parker to research a BBC radio documentary on the same subject.

Asian Teenager was broadcast in early 1968, shortly before Enoch Powell gave his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. Later that year Hiro worked on a TV version of the programme, and then with Philip Donnellan on a film about Wolverhampton called Strangers in a Town.

Dilip Hiro is now a respected author and commentator on South Asia and the Middle East, and we’re very pleased to welcome him back to Birmingham to reflect on his time in the city and how it helped to shape his script for the first British-Asian feature film, A Private Enterprise (1973).

The conversation will be hosted by Rajinder Dudrah, Professor of Cultural Studies and Creative Industries at Birmingham City University.