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This Week's Guest:
Gulam Noon
Sunday 7 March
Repeated
Friday 12 March | | |  |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is a businessman who brought authentic Indian foods to our supermarkets - Sir Gulam Noon.
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An instinctive businessman – he was brought up in a complex family situation with a step-brother and sister who were also his half-siblings and a cousin who assumed a paternal role after his own father died. They were not well off, but they had managed until their father’s death when Gulam was seven. After that, it was a struggle and as a young teenager Gulam would spend the evenings working in his family’s two sweetshops in Bombay. He had an entrepreneurial eye and saw business opportunities to improve and expand.
After a brief holiday in Engand he announced to his family that he wanted to expand into this country too. He built a confectionary business here and, seeing the huge public appetite for Indian food in restaurants, started manufacturing it for the supermarket shelves. After a disastrous fire at his factory in 1994 he built up his business again and now makes more than a quarter of a million curries a day. His biggest seller, not surprisingly, is Chicken Tikka Masala.
Gulam Noon was given an MBE for services to the food industry in 1994 and in 2002 was knighted. |
1. Nat Bhairav
Performer Shivkumar Sharma. Hariprasad Chaurasia & Brijbushan kabra
Composer Chaurasia/Kabra/Popatkar/Sharma
Publisher Gramophone company of India
CD Title Call of the Valley
Track 2
Label EMI
Rec No: CDNF 1.50008
2. Gentle on my Mind
Performer Dean Martin
Composer John Hartford
Publisher EMI
CD Title Dean Martin on Reprise
Track 6
Label EMI
Rec No: CCM-260-2
3. Ae Meri Zohra Jubin
Performer Brian Silas
Composer Waqt
Publisher Super Cassettes industries ltd
CD Title Beyond Space Nostalgic film tunes
Track 5
Label T series
Rec No: SVCD 1240
4. Strangers in the Night
Performer Frank Sinatra
Composer Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
Publisher Bristol productions
CD Title A fine Romance: the love songs of Frank
Track 1
Label Reprise
Rec No: 8122735892
5. Raga: Bageswari-Gat in Teental
Performer Hariprasad Chaurasia & Zakir Hussain
Composer Unknown
Publisher Oriental records
CD Title The musical splendour of India
Track 2
Label Oriental records
Rec No: AIR INDIA
6. Ave Maria
Performer Luciano Pavarotti
Composer Schubert
Publisher Decca
CD Title Ave Maria: A sacred Christmas
Track 16
Label Decca
Rec No: 448 176-2
7. Nine to five
Performer Dolly Parton
Composer Dolly Parton
Publisher Carlin music
CD Title Favourites
Track 7
Label Pickwick
Rec No PWKS 4116
8. Private Dancer
Performer Tina Turner
Composer Mark Knopfler
Publisher Capital records
CD Title Private Dancer
Track 5
Label Capitol
Rec No: CDP 7460412
Record: Nat Bhairav
Book: Long walk to freedom - autobiography
of Nelson Mandela
Luxury: Videos of cricket matches
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