Kavita Puri

Partition Voices

Untold British Stories

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• India EPZ Edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm
• ISBN-13: 9781526616463
• ISBN-10: 1526616467
• Artikelnr.: 57806111

Autorenporträt

Kavita Puri is an award-winning BBC journalist, executive producer and broadcaster. She presents documentaries on Radio 4 and the World Service including The Inquiry. She devised, wrote and presented the landmark three-part series Partition Voices for Radio 4, which won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize. It is currently being adapted for the stage by the Donmar Warehouse in London with Tara Theatre. She is the creator and presenter of the critically acclaimed Radio 4 series Three Pounds in My Pocket, which charts the social history of British South Asians from the post-war years. It is on its fifth series. While editor of Our World, its foreign documentaries were recognised with awards including the Royal Television Society and the Foreign Press Association. She worked for many years at Newsnight and studied Law at Cambridge University. @kavpuri

Rezensionen

Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narratives back to life. It's hard to convey just how important this book is