Witness history every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all of our films along with more than 2000 radio programmes in our online archive. just search for bbc witness history. now to the 1980s and how a bbc programme showcased indian cookery to the world. madhurjaffrey sn 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 hit and nobody expected that.