Bobby Friction

Career

Sehdev joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1 in 2002 co-hosting the Sony Gold award winning show, ‘Bobby Friction & Nihal’, and in 2005 joined the British Broadcasting Corporation Asian Network presenting the station’s Saturday afternoon ‘Album Chart Show’, before moving to ‘The Mix’, on Sunday afternoons. Since December 2012 he presents a weekly radioshow on East Village Radio: Friction on Erode Venkata Ramasamy. In March 2016, he stood in for Jarvis Cocker on the Sunday afternoon British Broadcasting Corporation 6 Music show, Jarvis Cocker"s Sunday Service, during that presenter"s absence. He continued, "Don"t say you haven"t been warned.

He continued, "On reflection I can understand, given the broader context and history, why that term is an offensive one."

Singh requested the British Broadcasting Corporation to terminate Sehdev due to his frequent derogatory statements.

Achievements

• Sehdev also won his second Gold Sony award in 2005 for his British Broadcasting Corporation documentary ‘Vote Friction’, and then in 2006 he started his weeknightly ‘Friction’ show on the Asian Network. The show, seen by many worldwide as ‘the definitive’ Asian music show, won Sehdev his third Sony Gold in 2007 and in 2009 it won him "Best Radio Show" at the United Kingdom Asian Music Awards (United Kingdom American Medical Association). In 2011 it won Best Radio Show again at the United Kingdom American Medical Association.

Politics

Although Sehdev refers to himself as "Bobby Friction" instead of by his Indian origin name, he still has strong views on how other Indians should think and behave.

Views

He asked his followers to "fight them & stand up to them now".