INHERITORS OF PARTITION
Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
Monday 8 August, 9am
It is now five years since BBC journalist Kavita Puri’s Partition Voices was broadcast by Radio 4. Marking the 70th anniversary of the day when British India was divided into India and Pakistan, the series-and Puri’s book of the same name - tapped into a growing need among British South Asians to look back at events in 1947.
“Partition feels like a historical event from
