Episode 1 Bradford: City of Dreams

Bradford, West Yorkshire.

A hundred years ago, this was the richest city in Britain.

Thanks to the booming textile industry,

it was a magnet for anyone who strived for a better life.

Offering a very Yorkshire British dream.

But that was then.

This is now.

So is there any hope amongst the ruins of Bradford's industrial past?

Well, although it certainly has its problems,

this is still a place for go-getters.

I wanted to take a bit of British food into India.

This is called fish and chips.

They're a staple food in Bradford.

It's a city of survivors.

Here we graft in summer, we graft in winter.

Any time of the day, any weather,

we're working.

It's a place where people are adapting to a changing world.

You get a good job for little money.

HE LAUGHS

From the ashes of the past a new city is emerging.

HE LAUGHS

Built on the spirit of the people,

for whom Bradford remains a city of dreams.

You might think that this is an unlikely place

to see the world's most exclusive supercars.

Well, think again.

See? It's not all grim up north.

Meet Nav.

ENGINE ROARS

Bradford's very unique. I'd say it's like an oyster protecting a pearl.

Basically, there's a lot to see in Bradford.

Externally, people have a vision of it as very rundown and deprived.

But there's so much going on, especially when it comes to cars.

You see the world's best supercars here in Bradford.

I'll see, like, a £500,000 car drive past.

For a second I think I'm in Monte Carlo,

but no, I were on Great Horton Road!

Bling is big in today's Bradford.

And nowhere bigger than here at Nav's business...

EnKhanz.

A specialist workshop

where supercars become that little bit more super.

You want crystals on your upholstery? You got it.

100-grand body kit for your Bentley?

Nav's your man.

He's been blinging cars since he was 16.

Put some more glaze on it. Give it a thorough glaze.

I've always been into car styling since I were a kid.

I started off in my back garden and gradually I've ended up with this

and I've got about 30 guys working for me now.

You know, we do styling, we do accident repair work.

As you can see, this Lamborghini has been damaged.

It's been involved in a crash on the motorway. It's a very expensive job.

That's going to take probably about £30,000-£40,000 to repair that car.

Nav's target market are Bradford's young entrepreneurs.

Those who can not only buy a £100,000 car,

but also spend thousands more blinging it up.

There's a lot of money in Bradford. Don't know where it's hidden.

Maybe under mattresses or whatever,

but there's a lot of successful women, men.

Quite blingy in Bradford.

Are you OK, Clemont?

Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.

-You need a hand?

-Yeah.

I class myself as a vehicle tailor.

It's a bespoke...a touch of Savile Row.

How's the baby, Clemont?

Oh, the baby's all right.

She's OK, yeah? Don't put any creases in it, yeah?

My passion is styling the cars up.

I'm kind of in my overalls. I'm not in a suit.

Nav's business is at a turning point.

At the moment he uses off-the-shelf body kits from

other manufacturers to pimp his clients' cars.

But he dreams of bigger things.

Of creating his own range of branded body kits.

His latest job is giving him the chance to push ahead

with some funded R&D for a Range Rover body kit.

It's a very high-end client who's coming to us.

We're at the stage of manufacturing it right now,

so it should be ready in a couple of weeks' time.

To style a supercar is very difficult.

You need to get the perfect blend.

I personally think that you need to get the right curves and...

to flow with the car, so the body kit needs to look genuine on the car.

So, you know, we're kind of getting in the market

and hopefully it's something that can take you global as well,

cos products, you can sell worldwide.

If Nav is to reveal his new brand of body kit in a few weeks,

it will mean a few late nights.

But he's a hard worker, often the last one to leave the office.

Right.

Tonight he has a special errand to run.

Cake for my mum.

Need the car keys.

He may be 32 and own a successful business

but, like many single British Pakistani Bradford boys,

Nav still lives at home with his mum and dad.

I still live in the same neighbourhood, where I was born.

People think you should move on, buy a bigger house, but no,

because that's where I come from. That's my comfort zone.

Going to have some nice dinner cooked by my mum.

She's probably the most special person in my life right now.

So, er...I think when I get married, my wife will be quite jealous of her!

HE CHUCKLES

I love my mum and dad. They've done a lot for me.

-Hi.

-You all right?

Yeah.

Having five kids and bringing them up, it's been very difficult.

How are you, mate?

All right? Hello, how are you doing?

Nav's bought his mum much more than a cake.

-I got you a car for Mother's Day.

-Thank you.

Let's get some cake.

I bought my mum a car as well.

Just gave her the keys and she's really happy.

A couple of months ago her car got stolen.

We had a burglary in the house.

I think my mum left the kitchen window open

and somebody fished the keys out, so... I never say it's her fault,

but you know, we'll leave that to you guys to judge.

It's very nice.

Yeah, it's got all pre-loaded.

So she can't complain.

It's got all the parking sensors and reverse cameras. Brand new.

I'm really proud of this son. He's really a hard worker.

The Khans' house is more than a family home.

It's the birthplace of Nav's business.

EnKhanz started in the back yard with a Vauxhall Nova.

The business has moved on, but none of Nav's family

have strayed far from the house they grew up in.

Yeah, very close family. My sisters live local as well.

There's about 10 or 11 nieces and nephews as well,

so they all like spending time at my mum's house.

It's like the headquarters. He's always picking his ears.

Go on, show us what you like doing.

LAUGHTER

The Khans' story is textbook Bradford.

In the '50s and '60s,

there were labour shortages in the textile mills.

So the government encouraged them to recruit

where labour was cheap and plentiful -

in Commonwealth countries.

Thousands jumped at the chance to leave rural poverty behind.

And by far the largest number came from Pakistan.

It wasn't an easy life grafting in the mills,

coping with the Yorkshire weather, the bland food and the locals,

but they created a nice little home from home

and began to settle in.

By 1968, there were around 20,000 Pakistanis in Bradford.

That's the year Nav's dad arrived.

I worked in the textile labour, spinning and twisting.

12 hours a shift.

Five days a week.

I used to get 10 pound a week wages for that.

And then I decided to leave this job

and then go into local transport.

That's how bus drivers used to dress in 1971.

Looks like a Bollywood actor there.

After 39 years on the buses, Nav's dad retired last year.

And all the family got together. We just had a retirement party,

just to show an appreciation for all his hard work and achievement.

The word is achievement, I think.

So, yeah, a present.

I gave a holiday for two

in any destination in the world, all expenses paid.

I'm sure in t'small print it said Scarborough or Blackpool,

but I think my dad's going to Dubai.

LAUGHTER

So what are you going to do when you grow up, then?

-I want a business.

-A business!

-Yeah.

-I think it runs in the family.

What kind of business do you want to do?

Erm... Same as you.

-Cars?

-Yeah.

You better start fixing them now in the back garden, like I did.

Right, what are we doing? You're on Temple Run?

-I bet I'll beat you.

-Play, then.

-Go on, then.

Right, I've got to beat you on this.

-Has it started?

-Obviously!

Nav is one of the new generation

of success-hungry young entrepreneurs.

-How much is this?

-That's £15 the full set or two for 25.

Bradford has fewer people over 65

and more under 30 than anywhere else.

We want to earn our first million by 18.

It's not something we want to do. It is something we are going to do.

We want to open our own business.

We want to be successful young businesspeople.

Even in the middle of the economic crisis,

there were nearly 4,000 start-up businesses.

Could you bear with me? What I'll do is,

I'll put you through to our head of technical.

Good morning, MM Engineering.

And in some areas, nearly a quarter of the workforce are self-employed.

When I was growing up as a kid, if I asked my mum for 10p

for an ice pop, I'd have to put a business case forward to her,

and she'd be like,

"Well, how many ice pops are you going to buy for 10p?"

And I said, "Mum, I just want an ice pop."

"Who are you going to sell the ice pops to?"

"Mum, I just want a frigging ice pop!"

LAUGHTER

Maybe it's the Yorkshire water,

or maybe it's because so many big employers

have let Bradford down over the past 30 years.

But people are adapting to difficult economic circumstances

by increasingly relying on themselves.

And it's not only Bradford's young

who are open-minded when it comes to business.

RADIO: # The hopes we had

# Were much too high

# Way out of reach... #

It's Friday.

RADIO CLICKS OFF

The weather's not too bad today.

Especially for the time of year.

Even the cat doesn't get up at this time of the morning.

CAT MEOWS

Come on. I don't think the cat likes me.

Never liked me, the cat.

And here's my breakfast.

Wait a minute, I'll turn it round for you.

Look, that's a big mug of tea.

And a bowl of custard what I didn't eat last night.

Well, that's breakfast done. What's next on the menu?

Meet Graham, builder of choice for the Asian community.

Hiya. This is where I live. I've been here for 30 years.

My mother-in-law lives next door,

my son lives at the top of the street.

Never mind the recession...

..his business is booming.

Today, Bradford is a quarter Asian.

So, like any smart businessman,

Graham decided to go where the money is and corner the market.

# I have often walked

# Down this street before

# But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before... #

10 years ago, a lot of English people wouldn't work for Asian people,

but since the riots have happened, we've moved on.

You know, Asians and English are working together.

# On the street where you live... #

Hello, Graham. How are you?

# People stop and stare... #

So we're integrating a lot more now. We're living more together.

# For there's nowhere else on earth

# That I would rather be... #

English people, you know, they're working for Asian people.

Once you get to know the people, people are people.

# Can be here on the street...

# Where you live. #

He's always got several jobs on the go, has Graham.

But today, he's on-site at a building

that's undergoing quite a transformation.

It used to be a nightclub, but now it's going to be a ladies' madrassa.

It's just for Muslim ladies, you know, to come.

A madrassa is a religious school, so there'll be no more boozy nights

for the next students to walk through these doors.

In Bradford, a lot of the pubs have changed into religious houses,

and this is a club, and at the end of the day, it's a building, isn't?

Doesn't matter really what's gone on there in the past,

it's what's in the future.

Mr Khan from the local mosque is the client.

Graham and his lads have worked for him for a good few years.

So we're going to have to take this floor up, actually.

Well, I'm worried about Danny.

-You're worried about him?

-Yeah. He's stopped giving me food.

-And you need to go to his house for dinner?

-Can't afford no food.

Yeah? Well, let's get the initial things sorted, yeah?

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

Yeah.

No less than 200. 200, no less. Nah, nah, nah.

I've made your mum happy anyway.

I've made your mum happy already.

No, do sau pound, do sau pound, that's it.

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

You've already got a cheap job, haven't you? Aye.

SPEAKS URDU

That means, "Good work, but less money to pay."

-That's what he said.

-HE LAUGHS

That's what I said, yeah.

You get a good job for little money.

Probably about 25 years ago,

I realised a lot of the people can't speak English,

and they were doing classes for Urdu,

so what I did, I thought I'll enrol for classes for Urdu,

pick up the key words.

Once you start picking up the key words, you know,

people actually like it when you're making an effort.

They start thinking, "Oh, he's integrating."

The Urdu gave him a unique in to the Asian community,

and he's never looked back.

Well, one thing about the growing Asian population,

we started working for Grandad, then we worked for the son,

and now we actually work for the grandchildren.

So it's an ongoing work for us all the time.

And I've seen all the family grow up, all the children grow up.

That are now adults.

You're the best one I know.

Since I came to this country. You name it, he knows it all.

And he'll do it for you.

-How are you, sir?

-I'm all right. How are you?

-I'm all right.

-What are you up to?

-I'm just waiting for you to do my window.

-Oh, your job?

-Yes. You haven't... You keep forgetting, don't you?

How long have you been waiting? That's a problem.

-It's been a long, long time.

-Don't be jumping the queue.

-Don't be jumping the...

-I've already been three years!

-Three years?

-Yes.

So when you going to do my job?

Er...

-See if we can do it next week.

-Are you sure?

-I'll try my best.

-Promise?

-Wada, wada, wada.

The Muslim community is keeping Graham very busy.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Britain,

and here in Bradford,

mosques are being built and expanded to catch up.

Down, down, down, this edge, down this edge.

OK.

This is a mosque on Legrams Lane.

This used to be a church many years ago.

Now it's a mosque.

We do a lot of work in a lot of mosques in Bradford.

Graham's work can be a bit stop-start.

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

Quite often, he has to drop everything

and rush off to his other job.

So it's one child, then, yeah?

No worries, yeah?

But his clients accept it...

..because Graham has become the community's gravedigger.

What we're doing now, we're digging out for a child.

It's only, I think, up to about a month old.

I think he just died this morning.

Muslims like to bury their dead quickly,

normally within 24 hours of death.

And since the council gravediggers didn't work out of hours,

somebody once asked Graham to help out,

and Graham, being a can-do kind of guy, said yes.

Now, he's in the cemetery almost every day of the week.

Three hours' notice today.

Sometimes we get less. Sometimes two hours.

We like three hours, because

if we have to prepare or owt like that.

Sometimes we do more than one a day.

I think it's three today, is it?

At the moment.

Last year, Graham dug 396 graves, most of them for Muslims.

Having done it for 17 years, he's become something of an expert.

What we do is split flags. Obviously, it's a very small child.

Usually, the father goes into the grave,

and if it's too big, the grave, they struggle to put the baby in.

Obviously, each family's under a lot of stress,

and they don't want to be handling heavy gear.

And they're not used to handling it.

Let me just get that end out.

It's very difficult sometimes.

But other times you're doing it for the family.

You either can do it, or you can't do it.

I don't think there's any in between.

I don't think you can go away and think about it.

Not always the nicest feeling, but you've to do it.

And...

go from there...

We place the baby into the grave, and then what we do,

we place the flags on the top, so that there's a void inside.

Doesn't have to answer to anybody, you know, when he goes to heaven.

It's straight to heaven for a child.

And any child under the age of puberty goes all the same,

because they've done nothing wrong,

so this child will go straight to heaven.

Jannat, they call it, jannat.

Yeah, I had a daughter what died, and obviously,

it's not the easiest of things, but...

you have to move on.

And...

this is what you do.

His work may not always be easy...

..but Graham's built a successful, unique business over the years.

And even in these tough times in Bradford,

there are plenty who are starting new businesses.

Two weeks ago, Rajen quit a steady job as a solicitor

in order to set up a string of small businesses.

All the pigeons I've got are here at the moment.

It's one thing about quitting the 9-to-5,

that I'm going to be able to enjoy all my pigeons and things like that.

You know, you feel like you have a lot more control of your time.

I usually get a cup of tea.

I usually just stand here and just watch my birds.

My grandfather used to keep pigeons, so he told me a little bit about it.

He fought in World War II. He was a soldier for the British Army.

He was a proper Yorkshireman.

We all had the curries, and he'll be having his mashed potato,

and he'll be like, "I'm not having none of that foreign muck!"

Say, "Grandad," and he'll be like, "I don't eat rice! I don't eat rice!"

I say, "What are you on about? You're eating rice pudding!"

Mr Raj is winner! He look after his pigeon, you know!

He's a winner of Bradford.

West Yorkshire. We are proud of our neighbour.

Pigeon is very nice hobby.

Thank you.

Rajen has spotted a business opportunity

in his Anglo-Indian roots.

This is where I live with my wife and my mum and my sister.

My wife's in the kitchen at the moment.

This is Mazui. She's just cooking a thing.

Say hi, Mazui.

SHE LAUGHS

And this is my mum.

She's just holding my little son at the moment.

He's Ethan. He's only two months old, so I'm really blessed,

and I've got my daughter and she is two years old,

and if you come over here, this is my father.

He was a doctor in India, a heart specialist,

and that's my mum.

On the way to England, my grandad in India said to my dad,

"Make sure that you don't eat beef, don't drink alcohol,

"and don't fall in love with a white person,"

and on the plane, my dad had beef and had alcohol

and within a week, he fell in love with my mum.

Rajen's wife is from eastern India.

The plan is to spend half their time there and half in Bradford,

and have businesses generating income in both places.

He's already set up a clothing store in India,

specialising in British brands.

And that's just the beginning.

People like the fact that it's from England

and it's British-designed,

so whatever comes out on the high street in Britain,

that's what I send over to India,

and that seems to really work and we're really, really busy.

I've got another plan in the future.

I'd really like to open a restaurant,

like an English restaurant for Indians, have fish and chips,

you know, traditional fish and chips.

I will test that out, do some market research,

see what people think.

I hope that, you know, how curries have taken off in England,

I hope fish and chips takes off in India.

Maybe we'll have little chains of fish and chip stores everywhere.

It may not be as mad as it seems.

Many of Bradford's most successful entrepreneurs

have made their fortunes from food.

This is The Big Dripper. It's bigger than a Big Mac,

juicier than a Big Mac, and above all, it's halal.

Welcome to Bradford's pudding mile!

This is a cornflake tart. It's traditional Yorkshire.

You wouldn't really find it towards the south of the country,

but up north, it's really popular. It's served warm with custard.

The growing popularity of plain English grub

proves what Rajen's betting on.

-Want some salt and vinegar?

-Yes, please.

That Asian tastes are adapting.

You get all sorts of people coming in -

Asians, Pakistanis, Indians, Sikhs, all sorts.

HE LAUGHS

Even an old Bradford institution, Mother Hubbard's fish and chip shop,

has recently been relaunched by Asian businessmen.

-Hiya.

-Hi.

-Is Mick around?

-Yeah, I'll just go and get him for you.

-Cheers.

The owners of Mother Hubbard's have been canny enough

to leave the day-to-day operations in the hands of a veteran fryer.

I'm Mick, manager of Mother Hubbard's.

And Rajen has come to pick his brains.

The art of frying fish and chips is to use the best product

and buy in the best things you can buy.

Now, there's a special way of battering them.

-Always do it with the skin side down.

-Oh, right.

Dip it in your batter, and then lay it into the fat.

I'm a traditional fish fryer,

and I have used, normally, beef dripping.

-Right. We'd have to change that.

-I've changed now.

I've changed my method of frying.

We're now frying in vegetable oil, which, you know, is halal.

It's for the...

-It's just business needs, isn't it?

-It's for the Bradford community.

The Bradford community has changed over the years,

and we reckon that at least 70% of our customers are Asian.

With over 30 years in the business,

Nick thinks Rajen's idea of an Indian chippy has potential.

I've never thought of it until Rajen has come in to see me.

Now, I never thought as many Asians would eat fish and chips

as what they do, but Asians love them.

I said, "This is really nice.

"I'm sure if I can get something similar to this, without,

"obviously I can't get the secret ingredient..."

Well, you might do if I come to India.

Well, this is more than welcome. Come over there...

I mean, I might even contact you.

Let me come and open it for you, if my owners will let me.

HE LAUGHS

Rajen is off to India tomorrow.

Just getting ready to go over to my sister's house now

for a final meal as a family together.

Tonight will be the last opportunity for a family meal

of roast beef and Yorkshires.

Where's the chilli sauce? Thank you very much, Adam.

There it is, mate.

Cheers.

Guys. Tyler would like to say something.

Thank you, God, for the wonderful food we are about to receive.

-Amen.

-ALL: Amen.

Our family is such a mixed, you know, mixed race,

mixed culture, it's just like United Colors of Benetton.

My mother's English, my father was Indian,

I've married Mazui, Oriental, and my elder sister,

she's married to an English person,

and my younger sister is married to, well,

she's engaged recently to a South African.

As a child, Rajen lived in India, but then his father died,

and everything changed.

Look at them, eh?

-Oh, Mum!

-It's a good job she's double jointed!

I don't know how you manage that, Mum.

I take one and I've got backache after about 10 minutes,

and you've got both!

Needing the support of her family back in England,

his mum Anne brought her children back to her home town of Bradford.

When we first came to Bradford, we came here with nothing,

absolutely nothing, and I was 11 years old.

I couldn't speak English, you know.

I've still got my Indian heritage and Indian culture,

but you know, I also appreciate everything Britain's given me.

Adam, you should come over to India.

When I open a restaurant, you can teach them how to make these.

These will go down a treat!

Saturday night, all the Indians can come out

-and come for an English!

-English!

LAUGHTER

My dad worked from five in the morning

till 11 o'clock at night sometimes.

And, end of the day, you know, he had a heart attack at 48

and what did he actually do with his life?

Say bye-bye!

You're going to be so much bigger when we see you.

-See you, Adam.

-See you, mate.

So I decided that I wanted to do something where

I could enjoy time with my family and do things I wanted to do.

At the same time, have an income stream as well.

OK, Mum. Catch you later. Bye.

Rajen's mum works as a nurse in a hospital,

and can't get away.

-Bye.

-But she's heading out to join them in a month or two.

I know as the day goes on, it's going to sort of hit me,

and now, when I look at Rajen when we were at the dinner table,

he just turned like that,

and his eyes were just like his dad looking at me.

You know, he's got so many characteristics of his dad.

SHE SIGHS

At EnKhanz, Nav's new body kit is taking its time.

He's changed his mind on the original design

and started all over again.

Ali, how long are you going to take on that bonnet?

I'm doing a good job at it! Quality takes time.

That's what I instigate into my workers,

so I'm just testing him there.

Quality takes time. Definitely.

If he is to establish his brand as a high-end design specialist,

he has to get this one right.

The two weeks he estimated has turned into two months.

-Right, so where is that going to go, then? Is it there?

-Yes.

Is that the same as the other side?

-Yes.

-It's not.

This is wrong.

This is a personal project to me, so I've got to make sure it's right.

It's taken a couple of months to make this body kit,

and it's been nothing but a headache, to tell you the truth.

We've been working day and night on it.

It's draining me out mentally as well, but we're nearly there.

It's just the detailing that's taking a long time.

Yes, boss?

Thank you, sir.

That's more money for me.

At least something puts a smile on my face. HE LAUGHS

Progress is not helped

by communication problems in the workshop.

This is separate, this.

I know. Why don't we just make this here...

I tell you the problem, but you no listen.

-I don't understand Argentina language!

-No, Colombian.

That's the problem. When you've got a multicultural bloody workshop!

Colombia, Poland, Pakistan,

India, and Jamaica.

Arab. OK.

I think you've got to be grateful for what God given's you, so...

Plus, as a Muslim, I need to pray five times a day.

I do my best, you know.

Especially at work, I know it's very difficult for me

with the amount of work I've got on and the pressure,

but sometimes it kind of gives me a break from everything,

switch off and, you know, especially mentally.

So I can just focus and get back onto it and, you know, keep me stronger.

Bradford's cityscape reflects the social changes it's been through.

When the first Asian immigrants arrived,

it was nothing but chimneys belching black smoke.

Now, the smoke has all gone, and the chimneys that remain

stand alongside the minarets of our nearly 90 mosques.

And take a look at these terraced houses.

They've nearly all had loft conversions with dormer extensions.

Children stay with their parents until they marry,

and it's not unusual to find Granny and Grandad in there too.

And for that, they need the extra space.

Asian families tend to stick together as an extended family.

You'll probably find that there's extensions

on the lower ground floors,

so they can actually fit as many family members

into their house as they can.

Half of this street is actually owned by me!

HE LAUGHS

No, that's only kidding, actually.

I don't own any properties on this road whatsoever.

And everything I do own is fully declared and above board!

It's been good news for Graham over the years.

Today, he's popped round to do a bit of snagging on an extension

he built six months ago.

It just needs a little bit of adjustment.

It's been left to be done for the last six months,

because he promised me it would definitely be after Christmas

when your extension finishes.

But apparently, it's after New Year as well!

I did tell her that we were going to finish the job after Christmas.

We're just doing the final few little bits now.

So we're nearly there now.

So when he says I'm coming next morning, sometimes two,

three mornings pass, and I sent the message in capitals,

oh, this needs doing, or this needs doing.

He says, "Stop nagging me.

"That's like telling me off." I said, "What am I supposed to do?

"I paid you for getting the job done,

"so I've got to have the right to nag."

-It's perfect now.

-Is it?

-Come and check. You check it.

I can get some fresh air now?

Yeah, yeah. Go on. Shut it, shut it.

Yeah?

Not glass now. It's not like a block glass now.

It's a proper patio now. Thick doors and all.

For winter, for you.

Right, show me your upstairs one now.

Is that other one sorted as well?

What's wrong with the other one?

I thought the bathroom needed adjusting.

See, he was trying to do half a job now!

He just likes coming back to this extension. That's what it is.

Yeah, go and make a cup of tea.

Graham's deep understanding of Pakistani culture

comes from his work at the cemetery.

As the first generation have been happy to call Bradford home

and the majority of their families are settled here,

they want this to be their final resting place.

We used to take our bodies from here to Pakistan,

and now the majority of them,

I would say about 95%, are now buried here.

The burial for a Muslim,

it's very important that it should be done

the quickest possible.

We have buried people within one hour.

And only with the help of Graham, we could do that.

OK, just pay attention to what I'm going to say, please.

Just one instructor, please.

If we have any problems when we're going across the grave,

-listen to what I say and I'll talk you through it.

-Let's go.

Burial is a secular ritual in Islam,

done mainly by the male family and friends.

And because Graham has attended so many,

he's often looked upon as the funeral expert.

It's a young lad who's died.

You know, I think the mother were upset.

A few family members were upset. Brothers are here.

So obviously they're distressed.

Sometimes it's not easy to do it,

but you just get on with it and sort it out.

It's not only just a job, it's a responsibility.

You can't let anybody down, you know.

You've only got one shot at the burial.

You have no rehearsal.

You've got to get it right for the people,

otherwise it can have quite a bad effect on the family after,

so there's no second chances.

OK, first time, first class. Take out the tapes.

You need to take the tape out here.

OK, that's fine, that's fine, that's fine.

First class. First class.

Graham works closely with Ghulam here, the Muslim registrar.

He really helps them. How to put the body into the grave.

Do this, do that. It guides them inch by inch.

OK, mashallah, mashallah. Well done.

OK, you get the mitti, you pass the mitti into the hands.

Go around the edges, seal the edges off.

If you can get some gehra, gehra is better than mitti.

Gehra's nice.

The majority of the people in Bradford know him

because of the cemetery. It's his second home.

And his wife just hates the cemetery

because she thinks it's his second wife.

HE CHUCKLES

Tell them what you think of the gravedigger.

Oh, yeah! He's a horrible person!

THEY LAUGH

And you know something, anything that goes wrong in the cemetery -

Who's done it? Graham has done it.

Everything that goes wrong.

If anything goes wrong, it's me.

But the good thing is, he can put it right as well.

So that everybody loves him. He is Graham.

90% of Graham's gravedigging is for the Muslim community.

But today, he's at a churchyard in a majority white English area.

Where an elderly lady is being buried in a grave he's dug.

Though we are dust and ashes, God has prepared for those who love him,

a heavenly resting place.

And as we prepare to commit her remains to the earth,

we entrust ourselves and all who love God to his loving care.

50 years ago, when somebody died, everybody attended the burial.

We all had a day off.

If you go to a Muslim burial,

sometimes you can have a few hundred,

even a few thousand turn up for the burial.

They'll come from all over the country.

And don't forget, most of the time they've died that day.

And they actually do everything.

Lower the body, deal with the body, they are even willing to fill it in.

We are missing that interaction.

I think we've lost part of the community spirit.

It's a bit sad that nobody turns up for your burial.

Probably her husband is already inside a grave.

And all her friends have probably died years ago.

And what can we do?

I think that's the first time it's happened for me. Is it for you?

Nobody turned up?

-I've only ever had one.

-One that no-one turned up?

-Never.

OK, bring the machine over.

Halfway across the world, in the remote part of India

where his wife is from, Rajen is at his British clothing shop.

The shop is managed by his brother-in-law and business is good.

So they are turning their thoughts to Rajen's new venture.

Reversing up what has long been a culinary one-way street,

and taking fish and chips to India.

These are old Bradford Telegraph and Argus. This is what I always look at.

Offer fish and chips twice for £5.

THEY LAUGH

£5. That will be...400 rupees.

Fish and chips. It's not bad.

For Indian money, it's quite a lot, 400 rupees.

400 rupees for fish and chips.

Mizoram is a landlocked mountainous region,

and there isn't a chippy for thousands of miles.

So Rajen is going to test the market by inviting local dignitaries

to a Yorkshire-themed gala luncheon.

At which, they will be treated to fish and chips.

I'm just going to go down to the local market.

I'm going to try and source some of the local ingredients, if I can.

Try and buy some fish. Let's see what kind of local fish they've got,

compared to Britain.

Man, the smell is proper strong.

This one looks quite big. Looks different from all the others.

Let's go for this one here. This is a far cry from Morrison's fish counter.

In Morrison's, you've got them ice packed and everything.

Over here, you've got a bowl of fish heads, looking at you.

-That's enough?

-How will she cut it?

Just tell her to fillet it.

The women are strong here.

You wouldn't mess with her with that knife, would you?

Rajen's business plan now hangs on the crucial taste test

at his fish and chip lunch.

With the future of his business at stake,

his mum has arrived from Bradford to make sure he gets it right.

We are going to have a Yorkshire day in Mizoram.

We are just going to a restaurant now, you know,

where things are being prepared as he would prepare them in Yorkshire.

I think about one o'clock, we've got people coming to taste them.

I'll go in the background so I don't hear if they don't like it.

This is all of Bradford, just where we are from.

Our plan is, to put in the place of all these photos...

-Yeah, OK.

-Put that like that.

We've got a special guest from the UK.

That's great. It's fine.

Yeah, now we are in Yorkshire. This is the land of Yorkshire.

-It's called a trifle.

-Pardon?

-We call it trifle.

-A triangle?

-A trifle.

-Tri-tri...?

-Trifle.

-Trifle.

I've never heard of this before. We are very happy to see this thing.

OK, guys. Just try the hats on to see if there is a hat that actually fits.

And then they also need to put on the hat as well.

In Yorkshire, we've got some phrases.

I don't know if you guys can manage that.

As you greet people, in Yorkshire it's like - 'ey up.

You know, it's like a Yorkshire hello.

Bhalo acho, you know, like that. In Yorkshire it's 'ey up.

-'Ey up.

-Yeah, 'ey up.

'Ey up.

ALL: 'Ey up.

'Ey up.

-'Ey up.

-ALL: 'ey up.

MUSIC: "Land Of Hope And Glory"

Obviously a brass band is one of the famous things from Yorkshire.

A Yorkshire brass band.

It's unfortunate we can't get the Black Dyke from Queensbury

over here to play.

So we've got the Salvation Army to lend us a hand,

and they are going to play music for us today.

Hi, sir.

Nice to meet you. I'm really grateful that you guys could make it.

-This is my wife.

-Nice to meet you.

Rajen has invited the great

and the good from Mizoram society for the occasion.

-Nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you.

-I'm glad that you could come today.

Thank you very much for taking time out from your busy schedules

to participate in this event.

He has booked a restaurant, chefs and all, and his mum Anne has

passed on 40 years of cooking knowledge in just two hours.

Drain the fish now.

We've got the chips going over there. We've done the fish here.

We've got the mushy peas there. And then...we're off.

My initial thought when I was in the UK was

to bring a bit of Yorkshire into Mizoram.

We've got local fish and chips that we've sourced in India.

Just enjoy yourself and thank you again for coming and participating.

This is called fish and chips, the staple food in Bradford.

I would prefer it without the fish, please.

If you want to add a bit of salt and vinegar on there,

you're more than welcome.

Could this be the start of a bland food revolution that sweeps

through Asia, just as curries have taken off in Britain?

I like the fish. It's lovely with the chips.

Great.

I love fish and chips, I do. I love it.

The only thing I'm missing is a pint of beer.

SHE LAUGHS

I think it's going down well.

A few people have complimented that it's quite nice.

The fish is really good. They are enjoying it.

I'm not really sure if it's something they are used to.

They've just started.

You have to show them something before they know what they like.

I just wanted to thank everybody again for coming today.

I hope the food was OK.

That's my mum over there who has been doing all the cooking.

THEY APPLAUD

Any compliments or complaints go to my mum. I'm totally away from that.

OK, now everything's finished. It's all done.

They've had their cups of tea. They've all gone.

The brass band's done its last piece. I think it went really well.

The tatties were cooked perfectly. Ee by gum, it's been a grand day.

He seems to have whet the appetite for fish and chips

in this little corner of India.

But if he's going to build his international network

of little businesses,

Rajen needs to get something going in Bradford.

Nav is finally ready to unveil the car that will launch his new

brand of body kit and take his business to the next level.

Well, nearly ready.

Just check it all. Make sure the windows...stuff like that.

I've been working all night to get the car ready.

The customer's arrived. He's downstairs waiting for the car.

So we're just going to reveal it to him.

The client, Galdi, is a shisha bar entrepreneur.

He's been very patient throughout five months of Nav's tinkering.

But such is his faith in him that he spent ten grand

and he doesn't even know what the car looks like.

Come on.

Salaam aleikum, Nav.

-How are you, brother? Are you OK?

-Yeah, not bad. Good to see you.

-Finally, mate.

-Yeah, finally.

-Are you good?

-Yeah, not bad.

Right, looking forward to this.

You need to open that door first, before you put the shutter up.

Yeah. Open the...

Right, that's fine. That's cool.

Right, OK. Let's have this.

That looks sick.

Sick.

-It's all right, isn't it?

-It looks...all right. Lovely, yeah.

That looks mob.

We've made a mould of this design now. It's our own brand.

Nav's calling his new brand of body kits after his clan name of Barugza.

It's been patented as well so we can replicate it as many

times as we want and we can sell it commercially.

You like it? Did I let you down?

No, brother, that is...that is the daddy.

You'll get selected clients coming here,

but this is something people can buy online.

They can send it all round the world.

It doesn't really matter where they are.

So hopefully it's a good venture for the company

and will definitely add value to it.

-Nav's put a lot of love into this.

-I could just tell.

I was up all night, till 3.00, getting this car ready.

-You've done a good job, mate.

-You deserve it. Enjoy it.

-Thank you.

-See you later.

-Take care.

Nav's new body kit is a unique fusion of Asian bling

and Yorkshire graft.

A recipe that he hopes will take him global.

Bradford now has 146 nationalities within it.

In recent years, the city has attracted a new wave of migration.

Mostly from Eastern Europe.

They've come here for the same reason the Asian migrants

settled here - to build a better life.

So once again, Graham's not missing a trick.

He's been learning a new language.

Dobre, dobre.

Just a few words of Slovakian. Everybody likes a few words.

Dobre, dobre.

Today, he's collecting rent from a Slovakian tenant,

in one of the many properties he's bought over the years.

OK? See you next week.

My first house was in 1979.

And I bought it for £2,500. And then I bought next door for £3,500.

And then I bought another house. And it just carried on like that, really.

I think Bradford will always attract economic migrants.

Even if it's just that they think they're going to better themselves.

Obviously, the migrants that are already here are very established.

And it's harder for a new set of migrants to come in

and get themselves established.

But it'll carry on. It'll just keep carrying on.

This family are previous tenants, they lived in a previous house.

I came to the UK because here, it's better to live.

It's a better life for children. For me. For my wife.

The Pakistani people, you know, are business people now.

Czech Republic, in 20 years' time,

do you think they'll be business people in England?

-Maybe yes. Yes.

-Slovakian people?

-Yeah, yeah. Maybe yes.

Because they're coming now to the UK.

They haven't lived here for 20 or 30 years.

Maybe after living here for 20, 30 years,

maybe there will be many businessmen.

And I have very good landlord. Very good.

HE LAUGHS

Say that again.

I have a very good landlord. He's very good, a very, very good man.

Bradford has changed dramatically in recent years.

-See you. Bye.

-OK, see you. Bye.

-Bye!

And Graham is one of many who've seized

the opportunities that this change creates.

-All right?

-Yep.

You've got to keep changing all the time. You've got to diversify.

Everything, you've got to diversify.

If you're not diversifying, you're just going to get left behind.

And how about this for an opportunity?

There are 140 languages spoken in Bradford's schools.

CHILDREN LAUGH AND CHATTER

With the right resources, who knows what these kids could achieve.

Hi, Aisha. You all right?

Nav is taking part in a Dragons' Den at a primary school.

What's your name? Imran?

Oh, nice suit!

The majority of kids here speak English as a second language.

We made these for 50p. When we calculated the cost, it was 28p.

Leaving 22p profit.

By selling 500 fruit kebabs, our profit would be £220.

The young generation, they're as hungry as we are.

I think it's in Bradford's water that everybody is just hungry for success.

The cost of one milkshake is 15p.

We calculate that by spending £29.81 on products we can make 204 drinks.

So the more you sell, the more money you make. Correct, yeah?

ALL: Yes.

So have you thought of special offers?

Instead of one person buying something,

why don't you do a special offer where you can say, look,

if you buy ten brownies you'll get them a little bit cheaper.

So you sell volume.

What you can do is photocopy that so it will save you time.

Cos every time you draw one, it'll take time. And time is money.

What would you do if I asked you to do me a car

and then you gave me the car and I didn't like it

and didn't want to pay for it?

It's your own fault then, isn't it?

THEY LAUGH

We chose to do cars

because we knew the teachers would like to get their cars cleaned.

We were also going to make loyalty cards.

If you come once, you get a stamp.

And if they come six times, they get one free.

That's a very good idea.

You've got to speculate to accumulate.

Wow! That's true. Remember that. Never forget that.

Any idea can work, it all depends on how ambitious you are.

If you believe in something, put everything you've got into it.

Believe in yourself and you'll succeed.

The team that we've chosen is...

THEY DRUMROLL

Night Reflectors.

APPLAUSE

Well done.

We know that the dragon is powerful.

The dragon is unafraid.

And the dragon is a winner. Is that you?

PUPILS: Yes.

I didn't hear you. Is that you?

PUPILS: Yes!

THEY APPLAUD

I was working in restaurants, doing dead-end jobs like picking up

dishes and working in shampoo factories, valeting cars.

It kind of struck me -

do I carry on doing this for the rest of my life?

Or do I actually make something of it?

I was hungry. I was hungry for success,

because I wanted to prove to all the people that always put me down

and thought negatively about me, and Bradford, that I can do this.

Maybe if I was somewhere else, I don't know.

Maybe it would have been different.

But things just worked out for me perfectly here.

People don't think that it's possible to make it in Bradford

but there's a lot of examples out there,

maybe me being one of them,

where it is possible and the sky's the limit.

DOG BARKS

Rajen's back from India.

Following the successful fish and chip trial,

he's wasted no time in sniffing out business opportunities in Bradford.

I've left the restaurant in India to my brother-in-law.

Now I've come back to the UK.

One of my childhood best friends, he owned a takeaway restaurant.

And he asked me to have a look at it.

Everything was fine, it just needed to be managed a little bit better.

So...I don't know. I bought it.

It's better to have your income from different streams.

That way, if something happens to one,

you still have income from the other sources.

I mean, that's like an Asian thing.

You don't have all your eggs in one basket.

He's not wrong there.

As well as the clothes shop and the chippy,

Rajen has opened a tile shop in India.

We've just put a fresh doner on so it's going to

take about 35 to 40 minutes.

And having just invested in his first Bradford takeaway,

he's already lining up another.

-Chicken balti.

-Chicken balti.

-And three chapattis.

-That's fine.

-How much is that?

-£4.80 please.

-4.80?

-Yeah.

It's not a fancy, posh type of takeaway.

They're the local working class families. They're our customers.

It's just like another kitchen for them.

I know it's a bit ironic, I'm selling fish and chips to Indians

and curries to English people.

But wherever there's a market...

If there's an opportunity, you have to go with that.

# Every bursted bubble has a glory

# Each abysmal failure makes a point

# Every glowing path that goes astray

# Shows you how to find a better way

# So every time you stumble, never grumble

# Next time you'll bumble even less

# Up from the ashes, up from the ashes

# Through the roses of success... #

NAV: People in Bradford are survivors.

It doesn't matter what economic crisis they're going through,

Bradford will improve because of the people.

# Through the roses

# Those rosy roses

# From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success... #

Years ago, Bradford became rich

because enterprising souls spotted the opportunities it offered.

Today's Bradford is very different,

and the opportunities may seem few and far between.

But folk here haven't lost that spirit of enterprise.

After all, it's what brings people here from far and wide

to this day.

# From the ashes of disaster

# Grow the roses of success... #

What more can I say? City of dreams, Bradford.

# Success! #

Next week...

There used to be a time

when milkmen used to turn up in the morning at crack o'sparrows!

The waves of migration that make Bradford what it is

keep rolling through.

Do you know why it's good? Because it's free.

So...delicious.

And even for the locals, there are new opportunities,

if you can spot them.

It's all for my daughters, at the end of the day.

I'll leave the legacy behind for them.

THEY APPLAUD

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