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Meera Syal

May 2023

  • ‘We didn’t prep the guests – we had no idea what they would say or do’ … the Kumars (Vincent Ebrahim, Indira Joshi and Meera Syal) with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

    How we made
    ‘Eddie Izzard was too terrified to come on!’ How we made The Kumars at No 42

  • Meera Syal speaks at the Bafta TV ceremony with her lifetime achievement award

    Meera Syal calls for more diversity in TV industry as she wins Bafta award

August 2022

  • Sanjeev Bhaskar at home in north London

    The G2 interview
    ‘The establishment didn’t know what to do with me’: Sanjeev Bhaskar on marriage, success and stereotypes

    Goodness Gracious Me made him a household name. Now The Sandman could bring international stardom. He talks about the bullies who tried to keep him down – and life as reluctant role model

April 2022

  • ‘Each instalment is about women who either feel – or are – unheard, or unseen’ … Nicole Kidman in Roar.

    TV review
    Roar review – female star power … and sex with a duck

  • Meera Syal

    Meera Syal: ‘It’s a golden age for TV – the streamers have kicked us all up the arse’

January 2022

  • Emma Thompson

    Whodunnit? Ask Emma Thompson and her surprise super-sleuths

    Ian McKellen and Sanjeev Bhaskar will also take to stage and solve a crime without rehearsal in starry fundraising drama at London theatre

September 2021

  • Meera Syal<br>SPECIAL PRICE. APPROVAL REQUIRED. British comedian and actress, Meera Syal

    This much I know
    Meera Syal: ‘I was a Midlands wench outside the house and a good Indian girl at home’

    The comedian, 60, tells Michael Segalov about growing up wild in the Black Country, marrying her on-screen grandson and finally being able to be a grumpy old woman

April 2021

  • Pedestrians walk past the closed doors at the entrance to the Garrick Theatre in London during the coronavirus lockdown

    UK arts figures call for Covid certificates to revive industry

    Signatories of letter sent to government include Meera Syal and Andrew Lloyd Webber

February 2021

  • Meera Syal … ‘It was extraordianry as a kid to go, oh my God, we’re on television.’

    Watched with mother
    Meera Syal: Watching Top of the Pops with your parents could be uncomfortable

    The actor, comedian and star of Radio 4’s Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar on her favourite childhood shows, from chart-topping stars to the show that represented British Asians

January 2021

  • Moeen Ali , Adil Ray and Meera Syal celebrity vaccine misinformation campaign

    Meera Syal and Moeen Ali star in video urging BAME people to take vaccine

  • Adil Ray, Moeen Ali and Meera Syal among BAME celebrities to lambast vaccine misinformation – video

April 2020

  • Gemma Arterton, one of the stars of the ‘virtual festival of the arts’.

    Lockdown culture
    Gemma Arterton and James Norton among 50 UK actors to star in coronavirus plays

    Digital series Unprecedented: Theatre from a State of Isolation will focus on upheaval in British life caused by the pandemic

March 2020

  • Judi Dench and Jade Anouka

    Actors appeal for the 'quality of mercy' in online Shakespeare videos

  • Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola in Kate and Koji

    'Scroungers' and stereotypes: Kate & Koji revels in outdated prejudice

October 2019

  • Meera Syal

    Sunday with Meera Syal: ‘Once school bags are packed, we all squeeze on to the sofa’

    The actor on cake, biryani and family viewing

September 2019

  • Jude Law at Wyndham’s in London in 2009.

    You're on! Jude Law, Judi Dench and more just before curtain up – in pictures

    Simon Annand has photographed most of the UK’s leading actors on stage. But his images of them off stage – in the half hour before curtain up – offer a rare glimpse of private moments

July 2019

  • Meera Syal, Lloyd Owen, Simon Rouse and Enyi Okoronkwo in Noises Off.

    Noises Off review – Frayn's chaotic farce as thrilling as ever

    Lyric Hammersmith, London
    Michael Frayn’s witty parody of backstage antics endures in an entertaining production that hit a real-life on-stage glitch

April 2018

  • Nicola Walker in The Split

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Split; The Woman in White; The Terror; Westworld

  • Meera Syal

    The Q&A
    Meera Syal: ‘I was asked for my autograph in the middle of a smear test’

January 2018

  • Back row from left: Sita McIntosh, COO of WhatsOnStage; Abbi Greenland, RashDash theatre company; Pippa Sa, Bechdel campaign and podcast; Gina Abolins, Out of Joint theatre company; Vicky Featherstone, artistic director, Royal Court; Meera Syal, writer and actor; Lucy Kerbel, director and Tonic founder. Front row from left: Rachel De-lahay, playwright; Steffi Holtz, Out of Joint; Beth Watson, Bechdel; Helen Goalen, RashDash. Hair and makeup: Dani Richardson. Shot on location at royalcourttheatre.com.

    After #MeToo
    'Directors are no longer untouchable gods': transforming British theatre

    The actors, directors and producers changing theatre
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