You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. Comedy is a bit of a dream job really.

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

But you know, I also know that comedy is really

subjective and everyone has different tastes. So we've got a huge range of comedy on offer from

satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about.

So if you fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds. BBC World Service and now Witness History with me Ben Henderson.

Today I'm taking you back to Mirpur in northeast Pakistan in the 1960s when a huge

dam was built that would spur a massive global migration.

Hi yeah. Hi Saba.

How Rrias how you doing?

Nove me to see you.

Hello.

I'm in East London at the home of Riaz Begum.

Floodwater, diverted by the Mangla Dam, forced her and thousands of others

to leave their homes and farmland in Mipur. We're still connected to that land deeply. I still

connected to that land deeply. I still dream of that land. It feels like I'm

wondering those houses, those streets,

and almost like a parallel dimension.

It still exists in my mind and my soul.

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