Kavita Puri

Kavita Puri is a British journalist, radio broadcaster, and author. Her 2019 book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, is based on her award-winning BBC Radio 4 documentary series of the same name.

Biography

Puri studied law at St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1995.[1][2]

Puri has worked on BBC Newsnight as a political producer, film producer and assistant editor, and as the editor of Our World, a foreign affairs documentary programme.[3] Her 2014 BBC Radio 4 series, Three Pounds in My Pocket,[4] told the stories of South Asians who migrated to post-war Britain.[3] In 2015, Puri was named Journalist of the Year by the Asian Media Awards.[5]

In Partition Voices, a three-part series produced for BBC Radio 4 in 2017, Puri documented the stories of Colonial British and British Asians who lived through the 1947 Partition of India.[6][7] Partition Voices won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.[7] In 2019, she published a book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, based on the series.[7][8] In Literary Review, John Keay described the book as "the closest thing to a partition memorial currently on offer," and a "heartfelt and beautifully judged book".[8]

In 2018, then-Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Puri as a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum for a period of four years.[3]

References
  1. Hartle, Paul (2010). "St Catharine's at the BBC" (PDF). Catharine Wheel. Summer.
  2. "Three Pounds in My Pocket: Radio 4 Presenter Kavita Puri's father shares his inspiring story". Radio Times. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  3. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (2018-07-12). "Victoria and Albert Museum appointment". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2020-02-22.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. "BBC Asian Network - Asian Network Reports, Three Pounds in My Pocket". BBC.
  5. "Kavita Puri is Journalist of the Year 2015". Asian Media Awards. 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  6. "BBC Radio 4 - Partition Voices". BBC.
  7. "'Partition Voices' book review: Indians in Britain relive partition with pain". The New Indian Express. 2019-08-02. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  8. Keay, John (2019). "From Lahore to Lancashire". Literary Review. Retrieved 2020-02-22.


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