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headlines and news stories for you at the top of the hour after this programme stop i'm here at broadcasting house in london for this addition of witness history bringing you important moments from the past is told by the people who were there, in this episode we are celebrating 100 years of the bbc and we will look back at five incredible stories in the history of the corporation. we will hear from the tv chef who taught the west how to cook indian food and the iconic moment the bbc beamed the beatles around the world, the fight to film the coronation of queen elizabeth and how it c...

Programme showcased indian cookery to the world. madhurjaffrey�*s indian cookery was the first mainstream series about indian food to reach a mass audience. the programme was an instant success and made its presenter a household name. in this series, i'm going to show you how to cook all kinds of indian food. some of it you may be familiar with the kind of food you've had in indian restaurants and some of it you've probably never eaten. it's the kind of food you get in indian homes. when my programme came on air, there weren't any cookery programmes. not indian cookery. it was an immediate h...

Madhurjaffrey grew up in delhi but left in her 20s to study acting in london at rada. a mission to excite western palates led to her being described as the original spice girl. it was an educational program, so people were supposed to learn from it, learn culture. what makes indian food indian really is a mixture, a blend of selected spices. the most important element became the excitement of the cooking. one of the things i'm going to make is roganjosh. this is a classical north indian dish. it's lamb in a red rich sauce. i wanted people to have the authentic indian food from homes and to giv...