Rupa Huq

Rabiah "Rupa" Asha Huq (Bengali: রূপা আশা হক; born 2 April 1972) is a British Labour Party politician, lecturer, writer and DJ of Bangladeshi descent. She is Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton, having been elected at the 2015 UK general election. She is the sister of Konnie Huq, a former Blue Peter TV presenter and was a senior lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Kingston University in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
== Links To Peel ==
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In an article on The Tribune published in 2011, Huq described how digitalisation has changed music and also mentioned John Peel's name:
"Growing up as a suburban box bedroom pop follower, the landmarks in my fandom were Smash Hits every other Wednesday, Top of the Pops on Thursdays and, once I reached the sixth form, under the bedclothes listening to John Peel on Radio 1’s graveyard shift. Now none of these reference points exist. The singles chart, around which the first two revolved, has become a mystery as far as I am concerned.The seven-inch single is long gone, largely replaced by downloading, i-Tunes and the rest. Even the magic of discovering something new or an old obscure track by the likes of The Fall or Captain Beefheart track via Peel can be substituted with YouTube, LastFM and Spotify – each in their own way is an archive with everything on tap."
Huq on her blog claimed to record a Bengali jingle for Peel's show as one of the Foreign Language Announcers, where the main hook was "Jow Jonnie Jow!", the recording was broadcast at the beginning of Peel's show on 22 October 1993 and on 30 October 1993.
== External Links ==
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* Official Website
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