Sanjeev Bhaskar

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, James O'Brien is joined by comedian, actor and writer, Sanjeev Bhaskar, who is best known for his roles in Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars and Porters. He discusses growing up in UK in an Asian family in London and navigating self identification as he grew up. Full Disclosure is an in depth interview series chatting to the world's most fascinating people, hosted by James O'Brien. Rate and subscribe on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts and connect with James on Twitter: @mrjamesob

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0:00.0	This is a global original podcast.
0:05.7	Hello and welcome to full disclosure with me, James O'Brien, a podcast series, which is designed
0:11.4	pretty much exclusively to allow me to chew the fact with people that I've always wanted to meet,
0:17.2	a category into which my guest today, Sanjeev Baskar, fits extremely neatly.
0:22.3	Sanjeev.
0:23.0	Hi.
0:23.5	Hello.
0:23.9	Hi.
0:24.3	I can't believe that we've never actually crossed past before, either from my days as a
0:28.6	rubbish show business journalist when you were the award-winning star of goodness gracious me
0:33.1	or in a sort of sundry other areas where our orbits should have collided.
0:36.6	Probably just as well. Probably is in those days should have collided. Probably just as well.
0:37.8	Probably in those days.
0:39.4	Probably is.
0:40.4	Probably is just as well.
0:41.8	I tell you what occurred to me when I realized when you accepted this invitation is that I was thinking inevitably of goodness gracious me when you first came to public attention.
0:54.8	And I would quite like to conduct an interview with somebody like you
0:59.0	without any reference at all to ethnicity or race or colour.
1:04.6	Well, good luck.
1:05.2	Yeah, well, hang on.
1:07.0	But we are possibly living in an era now
1:10.5	where it would be even more incongruous to attempt that
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