Tilusha Ghelani
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Tilusha Ghelani is a BBC Radio producer who is particularly associated with light entertainment programmes.
Tilusha Ghelani was educated at Burleigh Community College, Loughborough, where she took A-level theatre studies. After leaving the college in Summer 1994, she was a member of a theatre group (called "Byact") who went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to perform the tragedy Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca.[1]
While studying at the University of Central England, Birmingham, she contributed to papers on education and the importance of reading skills;[2][3] and on British-Asian identity.[4]
She joined the BBC in 2002 as a producer in Radio Light Entertainment. Among programmes she has worked on are:
- Talking Comedy for Radio 2
- Spanking New On 7 for BBC 7 (2003/4)
- Keeping Up Appearances In India, a documentary for Radio 4 (18 July 2004) about the remaking of the BBC Television situation comedy Keeping Up Appearances in Hindi for the STAR Network in India[5]
- Life in London, a dramatisation of Pierce Egan's comic novel, for Radio 4 (2006)
- Quote... Unquote (Radio 4, 2006)
- Just a Minute (Radio 4, 2007)
- Chain Reaction (Radio 4, 2007)
Apart from radio work, Ghelani has served as a judge for the 2003 Perrier Comedy Award.[6]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Byact theatre group go to the Fringe
- ^ Ghelani, Tilusha (1999). "Reading is Fundamental: Value of a National Book Promotion Initiative.". New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship 5: pp. 105-113. ISSN 1361-4541.
- ^ McNichol, Sarah; Tilusha Ghelani, Clare Nankivell, Michael Shoolbred (2001). Children, Access and Learning: Resource-based Learning and the Impacts of Environment and Learning Cultures. London: Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. ISBN 0-904354-36-9.
- ^ Bhanot, Savita; Tilusha Ghelani (September 2001). Manifestations of Diasporic Masculinities. Diasporic Communications: Transnational & Local Crosscurrents Colloquium. Retrieved on January 17, 2007.
- ^ How a very British TV series becomes very Indian
- ^ Edinburgh Fringe 03 - The People!
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