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• The Adil Ray show from 7.00am
• Early breakfast including devotional sounds
• Nikki Bedi moves to mornings
• Nihal from 1.00pm

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Asian Network makes a key change to its daytime weekday schedule from April in moves designed to support the new breakfast show with Adil Ray and to beef up the digital station's news and discussion output.

The Adil Ray Show moves to 7.00-10.00am before handing over to Nikki Bedi, whose programme brings the latest from across the worlds of entertainment and the arts from 10.00am to 12.30pm.

A new early breakfast show will include an hour of Devotional Sounds (5.00-6.00am) featuring faith-inspired music for Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Christians.

The first of two Wrap news programmes will now start at 12.30pm and Nihal will host the daily phone-in at the heart of the daytime schedule, where listeners give their take on the news story of the day, from 1.00 to 3.00pm.

Andy Parfitt, Controller, Asian Network, said: "This is the second stage of the strategic development for Asian Network. All stations need to keep evolving and these changes will work well with our new breakfast show."

Notes to Editors

The new Asian Network schedule will start from Monday 20 April 2009.

Early breakfast including Devotional Sounds: 5.00am

Breakfast with Adil Ray: 7.00am

Nikki Bedi: 10.00am

The Wrap: 12.30pm

Nihal: 1.00pm

Drive with Jas Rao: 3.00pm

The Wrap: 6.00pm

Gagan Grewal: 6.30pm

Regional Languages (8.00pm):
Mirpuri – Monday
Bengali – Tuesday
Gujerati– Wednesday
Hindi/Urdu – Thursday
Punjabi – Friday

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday – Bobby Friction: 10.00pm

Tuesday – Bobby Friction and Nihal: Midnight-2.00am

Wednesday – Kayper: 10.00pm

Radio 5 Live: 1.00am (2.00am on Tuesdays)

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