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Private Notes
Writer Hanif Kureishi looks back on how his semi-autobiographical novel The Buddha of Suburbia became one of the defining BBC dramas of the 1990s. He discusses the ways in which it set new standards in representing multicultural Britain, the importance that humour plays in pushing forward serious ideas, and what it was like working with his musical hero, after David Bowie unexpectedly suggested that he write the soundtrack.
In 1970s London we meet Karim, the son of an India father and an English mother.
Jamila’s betrothed, Changez, arrives from Bombay but he mainly wants to see Baker Street.
Eva leaves suburbia for the city. Karim becomes an actor and falls in love with Eleanor.
Karim becomes a star and goes with Pyke’s play to New York.
