BBC Asian Network: who's who

Asian Network's lunchtime DJ Nihal famously tripped up gaffe-prone Boris Johnson in the runup to the London mayoral elections. 'You can't out-ethnic me, Nihal,' Johnson somewhat bizarrely told his interviewer Photograph: Dean Chalkley/BBC Former late night and drivetime DJ Adil Ray now hosts the weekday breakfast show from 7am to 10am. In 2008 The Adil Ray Show won the best radio show category at the UK Asian Music Awards. Ray has also acted in 6 Music soap Silver Street and presented arts and lifestyle show Desi DNA on BBC2 Photograph: BBC Photograph: guardian.co.uk Weekday morning DJ Sonia Deol presents British-Asian lifestyle show with music and celebrity guests, plus a daily instalment of ... Photograph: BBC ... Silver Street , Asian Network's own soap opera, which has run since 2004. Regardless of the station's overall fortunes, the show is coming to an end - it was announced last year that it was being axed and would end in March. Shown here, the Chauhan family: Front L-R: Roopa (Rakhee Thakrar), Rita (Bharti Patel), Jasmine (Hema Mangoo). Back L-R: Arun (Dharmesh Patel), Pradeep (Ashvin-Kumar Joshi) Photograph: BBC Ameet Chana has presented the bhangra Breakdown show since 2006 Photograph: BBC Former weekend presenter Tommy Sandhu hosts the drivetime slot from 3pm to 6pm Photograph: BBC Kanwal Qazi presents the Retro Selection on Sunday afternoons, with music from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. She has also hosted the Sound Selection request show Photograph: BBC Dev Parmar presents the Gujarati Show on Wednesday nights, with a mix of news, current affairs and music Photograph: BBC Jas Rao counts down the Asian Network Top 20 on Saturday afternoons Photograph: BBC Noreen Khan has just taken over the weekend breakfast show from 7am to 9am. The BBC Asian Network Chart Show, which she also presents, has been nominated for best radio show at the UK Asian Music Awards Photograph: BBC Changis Raja hosts a show on Sundays in Mirpuri Photograph: BBC Sonny Ji provides the bhangra tunes on Saturday nights from 10pm to midnight Photograph: BBC Ashwini Malhi presents the Devotional Sounds Hindu show early on weekend mornings – other programmes feature Islamic and Sikh devotional music Photograph: BBC Pathaan hosts the Musical Rickshaw show on Sundays from 2am to 4am featuring chillout music and electronica Photograph: BBC