Silver Street

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Silver Street is a radio soap opera, the first such to be aimed at the British South Asian community, and is broadcast on the BBC Asian Network. It was introduced in 2004 as part of the Sonia Deol show, which was replaced from 24 April 2006 by the Anita Rani show, and until 12 May 2006 each episode had an early evening repeat at 19.20–19.30 in the Drive Programme. Since 15 May 2006 the serial has been broadcast from 13.30 to 13.40 each weekday during the Nikki Bedi show, with all the week's episodes being repeated as the Silver Street Omnibus between 14.00 and 15.00 on Sunday afternoons.

Storylines are focused on the lives of a primarily British South Asian community in an English town of unspecified name and location, with themes generally related to issues that affect the daily lives of British South Asians and their neighbours.

Many guest stars have appeared in the programme, including Saeed Jaffrey as the family doctor of the Chauhan family at a point in the story when the character Roopa Chauhan was struggling with anorexia, Sonia Deol (as herself) popping into a shop on the street on one occasion, and Toyah Willcox [1] playing the estranged mother of major Silver Street character Sean Brady.