Writers at Bush House

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements This Special Issue has come out of an AHRC-funded project entitled Tuning In: Diasporic Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (AHRC reference AH/ES58693/1), based at the Open University, led by Marie Gillespie. See < http://www8.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/diasporas/ >.Many thanks to Susheila Nasta who saw the value in the Writers at Bush House project and encouraged me to undertake the Special Issue, which brings my research into dialogue with her own South Asians Making Britain project.Very special thanks to Zinovy Zinik, my mentor and friend and guide throughout, and Sophie West, who did all the ground research and organised the Witness Seminars. Anthony Rudolf was a source of great knowledge and deserves his place in the canon of Bush Writers. William Crawley helped me out, as always, with kindly wisdom, as did David Page. Hamid Ismailov gave freely of his time and advised me in the latter stages of the project. (He is now Writer-in-Residence at the World Service — a fruitful outcome of our project.) Hugh Saxby, Robert Seatter, Jess Macfarlane and Alban Webb gave good advice in the early stages. Tom Cheesman, as ever, gave sterling support on this project from conception to completion. Finally, Emily Kasriel's fine series of images and photos and Mark Foster's design work on the cover embellished the text. Finally, Marie Dziedzic provided kind and patient support and helped me access the photo archive at Bush House.