Babita Sharma Corner Shop

Along with the skills to mop a floor perfectly and stack a shelf she gained a unique insight into a shifting landscape and an institution that despite the creep of supermarkets.

Babita sharma corner shop. Babita sharma is a journalist tv presenter and news anchor for the bbc. Along with the skills to mop a floor perfectly and stack a shelf she gained a unique insight into a shifting landscape and an institution that despite the creep of supermarkets. Babita sharma author journalist and former corner shop kid joins sheila dillon to uncover the reality of running our corner shops and ask why business is booming for many. Babita sharma was raised in a corner shop in reading and over the counter watched a changing world from the clientele to the products to the politics of the day.

Babita sharma was raised in a corner shop in reading and over the counter watched a changing world from the clientele to the products to the politics of the day. C 1900 to c 2000 knpr retail sector 1dbk united kingdom great britain 3jj 20th. Babita sharma now a bbc newsreader uses her childhood growing up above a corner shop in reading with her immigrant family to conjure that familiar world of news tobacco and consumer essentials and also to understand how the hackneyed image of asians running. A delightful story of growing up above the shop nigel slater.

The corner shop an enduring british institution but do we really know what happens on the shop floor. Babita sharma was raised in a corner shop in reading and over the counter watched a changing world from the clientele to the products to the politics of the day. A radio 4 book of the week a01 by author n babita sharma 196 128 22 200 bc paperback softback 272 two roads john murray press united kingdom hbtb social cultural history hbjd1 british irish history hblw 20th century history. Bbc journalist and author babita sharma explores the history of the british corner shop explaining how asian immigrants managed to transform these local businesses in the age of the supermarket.

Shopkeepers the sharmas and the making of modern britain was published in april and will feature as a bbc radio 4 book of the week this month. She presents newsday on bbc world news covering major global news events including the trump kim summit in singapore the eu referendum the 2016 rio olympics and the award winning bbc 100 women series. Babita s brand new book on the subject the corner shop.