‘Goodness Gracious Me’ Special to Air on BBC on 25th Aug

It’s back ! ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ to return to the BBC with a special starting on 25th Aug

(From L) Nina Wadia, Kulvinder Ghir, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal (Photo Courtesy: BBC) 

Goodness Gracious Me, the popular satirical BBC show is coming back with a one-off special. The show has been commissioned for a special after a successful reunion last year to coincide with 50 years of BBC Two and will be aired on 25th August.

The comedy sketch show, which featured Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nina Wadia and Kulvinder Ghir, explored the collision of British and Indian cultures.

Goodness Gracious Me aired on BBC Two from 1998-2001, after starting life on Radio 4 two years earlier.

Bhaskar, who can speak Hindi, describes himself as fortunate to be a mixture of British and Asian cultures, reported The Telegraph

“I am a hybrid. I’m certainly comfortable with who I am,” he says, and welcomes the BBC’s India season.

Making his documentary series about the country of his ancestors in 2007, he was amazed by how his father had been able to emigrate to what had so recently been an occupying power.

“Three hundred years of British rule and within a decade my dad thought it was perfectly fine, safe, legitimate to come to Britain,”