Press Releases Anita And Me star Ayesha Dharker joins Asian Network's Silver Street

Category: Asian Network
Date: 11.01.2008
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Ayesha Dharker, best known for her roles in Meera Syal's Anita And Me, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee and Star Wars, is to join the BBC Asian Network's daily radio soap Silver Street.

 

Dharker plays Ambika, the wife of Suresh Dattani (played by Pal Aron – Casualty and The Bill).

 

The Dattani family are Silver Street's lynchpin family, but they have had their fair share of problems. When golden boy Suresh returns to the street after many years his mother hopes he can restore family harmony.

 

Ambika is an independent lady who loves life's luxuries and is indulged by Suresh. When Suresh decides that the whole family need to get away from it all, he takes them to the luxury home in Mumbai that he and Ambika have built.

 

However, when Suresh's mother takes a shine to their luxurious pad, Ambika is disturbed by what this could mean for her future as she and Suresh's mother do not get on.

 

You can hear Ayesha in Silver Street between 4 and 13 February 2008.

 

Notes to Editors

 

Silver Street is the BBC's newest soap opera, broadcast nationally on digital radio.

 

You can listen to the BBC Asian Network via digital radio, digital television, online at bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork and, in certain parts of the UK, on medium wave.

 

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