All Radio

BABY FARMING – 90 minute original play for BBC Radio 3 – April 2014


PATHER PANCHALI – Two part adaptation of Bibhuti Bushan Bandopadhya’s novel for BBC Radio 4. Feb 2013


A DOLL’S HOUSE – An adaptation of Ibsens’s ‘A Doll’s House’ for BBC Radio 3 -2012


RESCUE ME – Forty-five minute afternoon play for BBC Radio 4. August 2010


SILVER STREET – Tanika was a regular contributor to the BBC Asian Network soap and wrote the opening five episodes of the show.


RUDOLPHO’S ZEST – 90 minute radio play for BBC Radio 3. Broadcast in April 2008


THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS – Adaptation of Arundhuti Roy’s novel – ten part drama for Radio 4 for Women’s Hour. Broadcast in July 2004


CHITRA – A forty five minute play for BBC Radio 4. Broadcast in 2005.


THE PARTING – A 45 minute play for Radio 4. Broadcast in July 2003


A SECOND CHANCE – A fifty minute radio play for Radio 3 broadcast in June 2002.   Nominated for a RIMA (Race in the Media Award) April 2003.


STOWAWAY – A 45 minute radio play for BBC – Broadcast in December 2001.


BETRAYAL: THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM DAVIDSON – A 45 minute radio play for BBC Broadcast August 2001.


THE BOOK OF SECRETS – Adaptation of MG Vassanji’s novel for Radio 4. Broadcast in April 2000.


THE SECRET – Adaptation of Ruth Thomas’s novel for radio 4. Broadcast in Dec 2000.


THE ETERNAL BUBBLE – 60- minute play commissioned for BBC World Service for their millennium season. Broadcast in January 2000.


THE WHISPERING TREE – 45-minute original children’s play for Radio 4. Broadcast August 1998. Winner of Prix ex Aequo Bratislava 1998. Nominated for a CRE award April 1999.


THE QUEEN’S RETREAT – 45-minute original play for Radio 4. Broadcast in June ’99.


WAISTLAND – 45-minute original play for Radio 4. Broadcast Feb ’99.


COAT – 45 –minute radio play for Radio 4. Broadcast Feb ’99.


MUSE OF FUSION – 30-minute radio play for Radio 4. Broadcast March ’99.


WESTWAY – Regular writer on BBC World Service serial.


RED OLEANDERS – 90-minute Radio 3 adaptation of a play by Rabindranath Tagore.


VOICES ON THE WIND – 75-minute BBC World Service adaptation of her stage play of the same title.


THE BOUNTY HUNTER – 60-minute Radio 4 original play. Broadcast 1997.


SKELETON – 60-minute Radio 4 adaptation of her stage play of the same name.


PANKHIRAJ – 30- minute play for Radio 4. Nominated for CRE , Prix Futura and Sony Awards. Later Commissioned and broadcast as a four-part series for Radio 4 in 1996.


ANANDA SANANDA – 60-minute play for Radio 4. 1997.


KISS ME QUICK – Wrote four episodes for a 20-part series for radio 5. 1994.


BADAL & HIS BIKE – 30- minute play for Radio 5 for young people. Nominated for CRE Award 1994.


ASHA – 45- minute play for Radio 4. Broadcast 1991. Finalist in BBC Young Playwright’s Festival.