''Asian Magazine'' was a weekly news magazine aimed at the Asian community. It replaced '' Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye'' which had been on air since 1968. Broadcast on

BBC1 BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's oldest and Flagship (broadcasting), flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includ ...

on Sunday mornings at 10am, the programme ran for five years from 20 June 1982 until 26 April 1987 and the final edition of the programme marked the end of television programming by the BBC in

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

and

Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

. Three months later, a new English language magazine programme, ''Network East'', was launched and was broadcast on

BBC2 BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's second flagship channel, and it covers a wide range of subject matter, incorporating genres such as comedy, drama and ...

on Saturday afternoons.BBC Genome Project – BBC2 listings 25 July 1987
/ref> Throughout its time on air, a midweek companion programme aimed at Asian women, '' Gharbar'', was also broadcast. ''Gharbar'' ended two days after the final episode of ''Asian Magazine'' was transmitted.

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