Creator & Host #TheSecondMap #ThreeMillion #PartitionVoices #3poundsInMyPocket @bbcsounds|Author Partition Voices adapted @donmarwarehouse | Ex Newsnight
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At least three million people died in the Bengal famine in British India during WW2. There is no memorial or even a plaque to them anywhere in the world. #ThreeMillion tells their story through extraordinary eyewitness accounts. Listen NOW @bbcsounds
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The 1943 Bengal Famine has been in the news. What exactly was Churchill's role in it? The great @kavpuri who has spent years researching this topic, separates truth from fiction @EmpirePodUK
With Churchill's connections to the Bengal Famine hitting the headlines this week, it's worth revisiting our episodes on the history.
Listen to Episode 117 with @kavpuri to find out more.
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The BBC Produced an excellent radio series on the Bengal famine called Three Million which is still available on @BBCSounds
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Kavita Puri retweeted
With Churchill's connections to the Bengal Famine hitting the headlines this week, it's worth revisiting our episodes on the history.
Listen to Episode 117 with @kavpuri to find out more.
Confused about Churchill's relationship with The Bengal Famine? @EmpirePodUK deploys @kavpuri to parse fact from fiction
–Empire: World History – Apple Podcasts
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Confused about Churchill's relationship with The Bengal Famine? @EmpirePodUK deploys @kavpuri to parse fact from fiction
–Empire: World History – Apple Podcasts
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The 1943 famine in Bengal meant little or nothing to generations in Britain. This special event in Manchester might change that. @prasunch @ttindia @kavpuri telegraphindia.com/life/no-m…
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Martha's Rule is saving lives in England, as the data shows. Now Wales and Scotland need to benefit too thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
Lovely to see and congrats on the book. #ThreeMillion
My author note recommending @kavpuri Three Million podcast on @BBC to teachers wishing to learn more about the Bengal Famine
#SharedHistory #WWII
Kavita Puri retweeted
Excellent combination of diligent research & superb story telling (again) from @kavpuri
My new @bbcradio4 podcast #TheSecondMap about the "forgotten war": Britain's war against Japan is NOW @BBCSounds. It's told by those who were there including the remarkable 104 yr old Capt Yavar Abbas. #VJDay80
Kavita Puri retweeted
It's Monday so here's my @FT pod column on The Second Map, Kavita Puri's brilliantly researched and illuminating new series on the war with Japan during WWII and why the conflict is so often overlooked. ft.com/content/a273a036-80ce…
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This is the best coverage of the British and Commonwealth war in the Far East in #WW2 I've seen for #VJDay, a fascinating series presented by @kavpuri.
🎙️ To mark the 80th anniversary of #VJDay The Second Map podcast has launched - featuring never-before-heard archival recordings and testimonies from last remaining veterans.
Meet them ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediap…
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Kavita Puri retweeted
Kavita @kavpuri has found a remarkable survivor of the "forgotten war" in Burma which my Dad (who was also a Captain) fought in. I wonder if they ever met? Looking forward to the podcast. You can read more about Capt Yavar Abbas here britishlegion.org.uk/get-inv…
My new @bbcradio4 podcast #TheSecondMap about the "forgotten war": Britain's war against Japan is NOW @BBCSounds. It's told by those who were there including the remarkable 104 yr old Capt Yavar Abbas. #VJDay80
My new @bbcradio4 podcast #TheSecondMap about the "forgotten war": Britain's war against Japan is NOW @BBCSounds. It's told by those who were there including the remarkable 104 yr old Capt Yavar Abbas. #VJDay80
"riveting and revelatory" - The Sunday Times
"the research and storytelling is exceptional" - The FT
"engrossing...Puri continues to give voice to the forgotten" - The Radio Times
Podcast of the Week - The Guardian
#TheSecondMap #VJDay80
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Kavita Puri retweeted
‘What I have learned in interviewing people about trauma, in order to be able to speak you need a public place and you need to be asked’ @kavpuri #vjday2025 Remembering those who served & suffered in silence with @TinaDaheley on @BBCRadio2
Thanks Paul and for listening. I need to write my #ThreeMillion book first!
@kavpuri @BBCRadio4 After reading Partition Voices & listening to The Second Map, Kavita Puri has shot to the top of my WLTM list; especially given my family's history and that of my late wife's family. I do hope that there will be a Second Map book too.
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On the podcast | Eighty years on from the end of the Second World War, Kavita Puri considers why stories from the war against Japan remain overlooked and under-told bit.ly/4htubM5
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The 104-year-old WW2 veteran who moved the Queen to tears bbc.in/4midmWb
Kavita Puri retweeted
🎙️ To mark the 80th anniversary of #VJDay The Second Map podcast has launched - featuring never-before-heard archival recordings and testimonies from last remaining veterans.
Meet them ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediap…
ALT A map of the world showing Asia and a war medal
Kavita Puri retweeted
Among the important commemorations marking #vjday80, & the end of the #secondworldwar, please consider giving a listen to this @BBC #TheHistoryPodcast #TheSecondMap on some of the less remembered history with the excellent @kavpuri .
