2026-10-15
2 分钟Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards,
a collection of funny and heartwarming moments from some of our many castaways.
Our cast away today is the actor and writer Mira Sayal.
She rose to prominence in the mid-1990s as one of the co-creators
and stars of the BBC comedy series Goodness Gracious Me.
In 2003, Mira spoke to Sue Lawley about when she realised
that the way people saw the British-Asian experience was changing.
I would say round about the time of Goodness Gracious Me.
So it's the last five, seven years?
Yes, there was a sudden flowering of my generation that had been born and brought up here,
but obviously had Indian or Pakistani parents.
Unlike our parents, we regard this as home, and we weren't just going to be passive onlookers in society.
We were part of it, and we found a voice and wanted to express that creatively.
And, goodness gracious me, kind of encapsulated that kind of statement.
We're brand, we're prayer, and we're ear.
I think that's what...
People picked up on it.
So you get, I mean, and it did become the classic, didn't it,
about the Indian yobs going into the English restaurant as opposed to vice versa?
Absolutely.