Make yourself at home (MY-HOME): Co-curating the South Asian community experience at Southampton

1965年10月10日，《Make Yourself at Home》在BBC One播出。BBC电台也播出了一个配套的广播节目。该节目的放映标志着英国广播公司处理移民问题的一个关键举措，并对其少数民族节目产生了持久的影响。虽然该节目展示了BBC如何看待其在日益多元文化的英国公共生活中的角色的重要转变，但该节目也标志着南亚移民生活中的关键时刻。MY-HOME是一个跨代的公众参与项目，跟踪“让自己在家里”的最初接收和遗产。通过对这个节目在南安普顿南亚社区中的社区经验的案例研究，我们将探讨这个节目和其他节目（Nayi Zindagi Naya Jeevan和Gharbar）如何为英国南亚侨民身份的构建做出贡献。该项目是与英国广播公司共同设计的，以纪念英国广播公司成立一百周年，该项目的产出将增加到该公司的100个声音和“我们的故事”的集合。通过口述历史访谈，参与者驱动的研讨会和约翰汉萨德画廊将与我们的第一，第二和第三代南亚观众共同创建的公共展览，该项目将说明BBC在南安普顿的移民中所扮演的角色的长期历史。 由于MY-HOME是一个跨代项目，我们将重点关注城市英属南亚社区的三个特定年龄组：65岁及以上的第一代移民35- 50岁的第二代移民18- 50岁的第三代移民参与这个项目将使我们的公众观众受益，让他们有机会分享他们对BBC节目的想法，并阐明他们是什么在公共广播中寻找。它将允许他们记录和保存早期与BBC接触的集体记忆，并谈论与BBC接触的障碍。正如Ofcom最近2020年关于少数族裔参与公共广播的研究所示，不同世代的南亚人都在关注BBC，原因包括需要在英国社会中获得更大的归属感，以及与其他祖国建立联系。该项目将使他们能够集体和批判性地阐明这些需求。

On the 10th of October 1965, 'Make yourself at home' was screened on BBC One. A companion radio program also appeared on BBC radio. The screening of this show marked a pivotal move in the BBC's approach to immigration and had a lasting impact on its ethnic minority programming. While the show demonstrated an important shift in how the BBC saw its role in the public life of an increasingly multi-cultural U.K, the programme also marks a crucial moment in the lives of the South Asian migrants. MY-HOME is an intergenerational public engagement project that tracks the initial reception and legacy of 'Make yourself at Home'. Through a case study of the community experience of this show among the South Asian community in Southampton we will explore how this show and others that followed it (Nayi Zindagi Naya Jeevan' and 'Gharbar') contributed to the construction of South Asian diasporic identity in the UK. The project is co-designed with the BBC to mark the centenary year of the BBC and outputs from the project will add to the corporation's collection of 100 Voices and the 'Story of US'. Through a programme of oral history interviews, participant driven workshops and a public exhibition with the John Hansard Gallery which will be co-created with our audience of first, second and third generation South Asians-the project will illustrate the long-term history of BBC's role in making immigrants at home in the city of Southampton. As MY-HOME is an intergenerational project, we will focus on three specific age groups within the British South Asian community of the city.First generation migrants aged 65 and aboveSecond generation migrants aged 35-50Third generation migrants aged 18- 35Engaging with this project will benefit our public audience by allowing them an opportunity to share their thoughts on BBC programming and articulate what it is that they are looking for in public broadcasting. It will allow them to record and save collective memories of early engagement with The BBC and to speak about the impediments to engaging with the BBC. As a recent 2020 Ofcom study on ethnic minority engagement with public broadcasting has illustrated, different generations South Asian are looking at BBC for reasons ranging from the need for greater belonging in British society to connecting with their other homeland. The project will allow them to articulate these needs collectively and critically.