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''Asian Magazine'' was a weekly news magazine aimed at the Asian community. It replaced ''
Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye ''Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye'' (''Make Yourself at Home'') was a BBC television and radio programme, presented in Hindustani, with the aim of helping immigrants from South Asia to the United Kingdom to become integrated. The programme was announc ...
'' which had been on air since 1968. Broadcast on
BBC1 BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...
on Sunday mornings at 10am, the programme ran for five years from 20 April 1982 until 26 April 1987 and the final edition of the programme marked the end of television programming by the BBC in
Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
and
Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''
BBC2 BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
on Saturday afternoons.BBC Genome Project – BBC2 listings 25 July 1987
/ref> Throughout its time on air, a midweek companion programme ''
Gharbar ''Gharbar'' was a weekly BBC television programme for the Asian community, which aired from 1977 to 1987. Initially a 26-part series billed as "helping Asian families to help themselves", the programme was made permanent the following April and ...
'' was also broadcast that was aimed at Asian women. ''Gharbar'' ended two days after the final episode of ''Asian Magazine'' was transmitted.


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