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Three Pounds in My Pocket

Kavita Puri hears the stories of pioneering Asians who came to Britain from the 1950s onwards.

Radio 4,15 episodes

Episodes

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Series 5
Episode 1
British South Asians and the noughties: pioneers and a backlash.
08 Apr 2022,28 mins
Series 5
Episode 2
British South Asians and the noughties: too British or not British enough?
15 Apr 2022,28 mins
Series 5
Episode 3
Personal reflections from British South Asians on surviving - and thriving - in Britain.
22 Apr 2022,28 mins
Series 4
Episode 1
British South Asians and the 1990s: a golden decade
08 Jan 2021,28 mins
Series 4
Episode 2
2001: the year everything changed for British South Asians
15 Jan 2021,28 mins
Series 4
Episode 3
Different generations of South Asians reflect on what it means to belong in Britain.
22 Jan 2021,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 1
Dramatic upheavals in the 1980s for Britain’s South Asians.
06 Dec 2019,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 2
Dramatic upheavals in the 1980s for Britain’s South Asians.
13 Dec 2019,28 mins
Series 3
Episode 3
Personal reflections rarely voiced from British South Asians.
20 Dec 2019,28 mins
Series 2
Episode 1
The turbulent years from 1968 to 1976 for South Asians in Britain.
05 Aug 2015,28 mins
Series 2
Episode 2
Kavita Puri looks at the turbulent years from 1976 to 1981 for South Asians in Britain.
12 Aug 2015,28 mins
Series 2
Episode 3
Early pioneers to Britain from the Indian subcontinent in conversation with their children
19 Aug 2015,28 mins
Series 1
Episode 1
Migrants from the Indian subcontinent recall coming to the UK in the '50s with just £3.
07 Mar 2014,28 mins
Series 1
Episode 2
Pioneer women who arrived from India in the 50s and 60s recall their first impressions.
14 Mar 2014,28 mins
Series 1
Episode 3
Where do the pioneer generation call home now and how do they hold onto their own culture?
21 Mar 2014,28 mins