Editing BBC Asian Network (section)

===Drama output until 2010===
One of the most significant programmes in the Asian Network line-up was an ongoing Asian soap opera ''[[Silver Street]]'', which was first broadcast in 2004. Storylines focused on the lives of a British South Asian community in an unnamed English town, with themes that generally related to issues that affect the daily lives of British South Asians and their neighbours.

Following the reduction of episode lengths to five minutes per day and continued falling listenership, on 16 November 2009 the BBC announced they would be cancelling ''Silver Street''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-09-25 |title=Image Dissectors - Asian Network's Soap Cancelled |url=http://www.imagedissectors.com/article/33 |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925181649/http://www.imagedissectors.com/article/33 |archive-date=25 September 2017 }}</ref> The last episode was broadcast in March 2010. The cancellation grew out of many criticisms of the Asian Network in the BBC Trust's Annual Report.<ref name=":0">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/11_november/16/asian.shtml Changes to drama on BBC Asian Network BBC Press Release], 16 November 2009.</ref>

''Silver Street'' was replaced by monthly half-hour dramas and in August 2010, BBC Asian Network announced it would be launching a new drama season from 1 September 2010.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/08_august/13/asian.shtml Press Release], 8 August 2010</ref>