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The BBC Hindi Service road show is under way. BBC radio has a huge following in India and the two-month tour of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar allows staff to interact with their listeners.

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Here service head Achala Sharma (right) gets the opinions of a guest during a road show event.

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The Voice of the People road show helps residents to raise local issues. Unemployment, law and order, corruption and the empowerment of women have been key issues so far.

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Uttar Pradesh and Bihar make up 75% of the service's listenership and the events have shown the people of the Hindi heartland to be articulate and of strong opinion.

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Five of the 41 towns on the tour have so far been visited - it began with BBC presenters and senior management meeting the press in Lucknow.

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The BBC team says the response so far has been very enthusiastic. Some people travelled many miles to see what the BBC was all about.

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Seema Chishti, Delhi bureau Hindi editor, attends one of the events, which help bring local issues on to an international platform.

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Presenters and correspondents addressed the attendees, whose comments ranged from "BBC is radio at its best" to "the BBC is the only media which has given us a voice".