"They never contacted me, he told the Guardian. The first I saw was in the BFI programme that they had an evening of Bandung File stuff but the choices suggest that there doesn't seem to be a knowledge of what the programme was. Ali, who wrote about his experiences on the show in his memoir released last year, said he wanted the programme to be presented correctly and placed in the right context."
"The show, which took its name from the meeting in Indonesia held in 1955 between newly independent Asian and African states, was part of a wave of programmes made by, and primarily for, a black and south Asian audience. Ali served as series editor alongside Darcus Howe, while the show was commissioned by Farrukh Dhondy, Channel 4's editor for multicultural programmes."
Tariq Ali was part of the creative team that produced the global current affairs programme Bandung File for Channel 4 in the 1980s. The programme ran from 1985 until its cancellation in 1989 and covered issues from apartheid South Africa to the fallout from the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Bandung File aimed to unify West Indian and South Asian communities while reaching a broad audience, achieving roughly equal white and non-white viewership. Ali served as series editor alongside Darcus Howe and the show was commissioned by Farrukh Dhondy. Ali objects to exclusion from the BFI season Constructed, Told, Spoken and to what he regards as a misrepresentation of the programme.
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