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Goodness Gracious Me
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Genre	Sketch comedy
Created by	Sanjeev Bhaskar Meera Syal Anil Gupta
Starring	Sanjeev Bhaskar Meera Syal Kulvinder Ghir Nina Wadia
Opening theme	Goodness Gracious Me (Bhangra version)
Ending theme	Goodness Gracious Me (Bhangra version)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	5 (2 radio series and 3 TV series)
No. of episodes	39 (19 radio and 20 TV)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jon Plowman
Running time	25 mins
Release
Original network	BBC Radio 4 BBC Two
Original release	Original Series: 12 January 1998 – 19 February 2001 Revived Specials: 26 May 2014 – 25 August 2015
External links
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Goodness Gracious Me is a BBC English-language sketch comedy show originally aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998 and later televised on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The ensemble cast were four British Indian actors, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. The show explored British Asian culture, and the conflict and integration between traditional South Asian culture and modern British life. Some sketches reversed the roles to view the British from a South Asian perspective, and others poked fun at South Asian stereotypes. In the television series, most of the white characters were played by Dave Lamb and Fiona Allen; in the radio series those parts were played by the cast themselves. Some of the white characters were also played by Amanda Holden, Fiona Allen and Emma Kennedy.

The show's title and theme tune is a bhangra rearrangement of a hit comedy song of the same name. The original was performed by Peter Sellers (portraying an Indian doctor, Ahmed el Kabir) and Sophia Loren, reprising their characters from the 1960 film, The Millionairess. The show's original working title was "Peter Sellers is Dead", but was changed because the cast generally liked Peter Sellers. In her 1996 novel Anita and Me, Syal had referred to British parodies of Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent".

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