Three Pounds in My Pocket Archives - Asian Culture Vulture

‘Three Pounds in my pocket’ – Seminal BBC radio series on South Asian migrants goes deeper and gets more personal…

April 15, 2022 //
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Series is living history and is now about people’s experiences in this century… By Mamie Colfox AWARD-WINNING journalist and author Kavita Puri’s hugely successful radio show ‘Three Pounds in my…read more →

‘Three Pounds in My Pocket’ – BBC Radio Four Series 4 looks at decade from 1990s and presenter Kavita Puri talks Partition threads…

January 6, 2021 //
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Critically-acclaimed series documents Asian community’s development in Britain… PARTITION and the infamous Norman Tebbit cricket test may seem a long way from each other but to BBC broadcaster Kavita Puri,…read more →

‘Three Pounds in My Pocket’ & ‘Partition Voices’ – BBC Radio 4’s Kavita Puri talks to acv as curtain about to fall on landmark series…

December 16, 2019 //
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Award-winning journalist and broadcaster asserts history of Partition and Empire will become part of the routine telling of British history… IT’S not just academics who record history and social change…read more →