{"id":250,"date":"2004-08-20T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T13:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=250"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"the_beeb_on_sik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/the_beeb_on_sik\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beeb on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2004\/08_august\/13\/sikhs.shtml\">&#8220;Sikhs and the City&#8221;<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is doing a show on Sikhs in the UK. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2004\/08_august\/13\/sikhs.shtml\">press release<\/a> starts with this little factoid: &#8220;There are enough Sikhs in Britain to fill the Royal Albert Hall one hundred times over.&#8221; I&#8217;ve never thought of counting groups&#8217; population sizes that way before &#8230;.<\/p>\n\n<p>The documentary is narrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0315792\/\">Kulvinder Ghir<\/a> from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/guide\/articles\/g\/goodnessgracious_66601650.shtml\">Goodness Gracious Me<\/a>.&#8221; It will include interviews with Comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sody.co.uk\/\">Sody Singh Kahlon<\/a>, nonagenarian marathon record holder <a href=\"http:\/\/sport.guardian.co.uk\/athletics\/story\/0,10082,1186668,00.html\">Fauja Singh<\/a>, and twin artists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikhfoundation.org\/comprof0403.asp\">Amrit and Rabindra Kaur Singh<\/a>, amongst others.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000246.html\">This<\/a> is a painting by the twins, btw.)<\/p>\n\n<p>Now we know how many Albert Halls it takes to sit Brit Sikhs &#8230;\nNah. Tell Paul he doesn&#8217;t have to worry about his day job yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is doing a show on Sikhs in the UK. Their press release starts with this little factoid: &#8220;There are enough Sikhs in Britain to fill the Royal Albert Hall one hundred times over.&#8221; I&#8217;ve never thought of counting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/the_beeb_on_sik\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}