Tilusha Ghelani

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!