Goodness Gracious Me
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Sep 19, 2026
Anita RaniHOST
But first, Dame Meera Sayal is a name that will be familiar to all of you, having graced our screens for decades now.
Anita RaniHOST
The actor and comedian rose to prominence as one of the team that created and performed in television's Goodness Gracious Me and later seven series of The Kamars at No. 42.
Anita RaniHOST
But Dame Meera is also a multi-award winning novelist and screenwriter who's just published her first memoir, Vigilante.
Anita RaniHOST
And as if that wasn't enough, she's currently performing on stage as Hazel in The Children at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London.
Anita RaniHOST
But first, Dame Meera Syal is a name that will be familiar to all of you, having graced our screens for decades now.
Anita RaniHOST
The actor and comedian rose to prominence as one of the team that created and performed in television's Goodness Gracious Me and later seven series of The Kumars at Number Forty-Two.
Anita RaniHOST
But Dame Meera is also a multi-award-winning novelist and screenwriter who's just published her first memoir, Vigilante.
Anita RaniHOST
And as if that wasn't enough, she's currently performing on stage as Hazel in The Children at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London.
14 MINS LATER
Anita RaniHOST
But also, I feel like through, um, the work that you're doing in drama and comedy, you also found your tribe.
Meera SyalGUEST
Oh, totally.
Anita RaniHOST
And then that brought us Goodness Gracious Me.
Meera SyalGUEST
Yes.
JoeHOST
And then there was another man who was in a sitcom.
JoeHOST
Was, was he in Goodn- not Goodness Gracious Me or...?
Martin DarnleyHOST
I know.
Martin DarnleyHOST
I, uh, yeah.
Brendan ConnollyGUEST
She is tremendous.
Brendan ConnollyGUEST
Nina Wadja from Goodness Gracious Me is in it.
Brendan ConnollyGUEST
Liz Carr from Silent Witness is in it.
Brendan ConnollyGUEST
Kerry Burnell, who lots of people will know as a writer.
IanHOST
Actor, writer and presenter, Sanjeev is the co-writer and co-star of award-winning Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags and Bags.
IanHOST
He has also written for sketch shows Chewing the Fat and Goodness Gracious Me, has presented extensively on the BBC and has written and recorded vocals for the musical project The Grand Gestures.
IanHOST
He's also appeared in the likes of Cold Feet and Look Around You, as well as being the star of a video for Elbow's Lost Worker Bee.
IanHOST
He's probably best known, however, for playing shopkeeper Naveed in Still Game for nine series on the BBC and three sellout runs at the Glasgow Hydro.
Nish KumarGUEST
[laughs]God, I don't know why.
Nish KumarGUEST
I was just like, "I gotta be here." And you know, I used to read books about how they wrote Simpsons episodes, and I, I used to f- I forced my parents to take us to see Goodness Gracious Me when they did a live tour in 1999 at the Hackney Empire.
Nish KumarGUEST
And I was, I, I don't think I was, I don't think I'd turned 14 yet.
Nish KumarGUEST
And all I did was t- talk about comedy and think about comedy.
Meera SyalGUEST
And I think that's the hard bit, actually.
TwiggyHOST
Am I right in saying Goodness Gracious Me on the telly was the first big series you did on telly? Yeah, for sure.
Meera SyalGUEST
Well, the writing started really from when I was a teenager and I started keeping a diary because there was so much mess in my head and confusion about living this bicultural life, which was really schizophrenic.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Yeah.
Meera SyalGUEST
You know, why have all the Indian families I know got cellophane over their remote control and sofa and a cupboard full of Tupperware? And why, every time I open an ice cream top, is there chicken curry inside and not Raspberry Ripple? So all of these things that made me laugh on my own, I have to say, nobody else was laughing.
Meera SyalGUEST
And, you
TwiggyHOST
know, a lot of those stuff became sketches for Goodness Gracious Me
Meera SyalGUEST
later.
Brendan ConnollyGUEST
Nina Wadia, who plays Shabana, was on EastEnders, this huge soap over here, for a while.
Brendan ConnollyGUEST
And she was part of the comedy troupe behind Goodness Gracious Me, which was one of the great sketch comedies.
Brendan ConnollyGUEST
And she comes in and she lands the jokes.
Brendan ConnollyGUEST
She knows where the humour is in her character and
NikkiHOST
From Bajie on the Beach to the Kumas at number 42 and plays such as A Tupperware Full of Ashes and the upcoming The Children.
NikkiHOST
And of course, the iconic, goodness gracious me, it's the OG, the vigilante herself, Dame Mira Sayal.
NikkiHOST
thank you so
Meera SyalGUEST
much for joining us thank you thank you for doing it at this weird hour because i've just come straight from rehearsal so we didn't think we could fit it in yeah
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Meera SyalGUEST
But there were a lot of us.
Meera SyalGUEST
We were a whole generation.
Meera SyalGUEST
It's what I was saying, like all the guys I met in Goodness Gracious Me, we'd all been doing that in our little pockets.
Meera SyalGUEST
You know, people in music like DJ Ritu and Apache Indian and Nisansoni and writers like Ayub Khan Din.
AaronHOST
But With the ball, they were absolutely terrific, and having Sonny Baker in there as a point of difference in the seam unit definitely helped.
AaronHOST
But even with the bat in hand in that second innings, goodness gracious me, we saw some lovely stuff, in particular from Toby Albert.
AaronHOST
Ever so impressed by him this week, and I'm sure we'll discuss him when it comes to the young gun in Division 1.
AaronHOST
But...
46 MINS LATER
AaronHOST
they are taking on the unbeaten league leaders.
AaronHOST
If, and it is a big if because Durham are unbelievable, but if Northamptonshire can win that game, they take a massive, massive leap forward to place in Division 1 next season.
AaronHOST
And as for the games in Division 1, I've got to say, Essex versus Sussex on paper, Goodness gracious me, that is a very, very exciting clash, especially with the two bowling units, with the likes of Cook, Snater, Porter for Essex, and of course, Simon Harmer.
AaronHOST
And as for Sussex, a confidence.
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