Inheritors of partition
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In homes across the UK, partition is not history but a live issue for its young descendants. Over the course of a year, Kavita Puri follows three people as they piece together parts of their complex family history and try to understand the legacy of partition and what it means to them today. She connects with a young man who goes to the Pakistani village where his Hindu grandfather was saved by Muslims; a woman who has always thought of herself as British Pakistani but a DNA test reveals she also has roots in India; a woman with Pakistani heritage and a man with Indian heritage plan their wedding and realise that their families actually originate from within an hour of each other in the Punjab. Five years after the award-winning series Partition Voices, Kavita Puri explores the 75th anniversary of the division of the Indian subcontinent through three stories from the third generation in Britain.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:39.0 | Hi there, you're listening to seriously from BBC Radio 4 and I'm your host Vanessa Casile. |
| 0:46.8 | Radio 4 is home to the world's best audio documentaries and each week you'll find two hand-picked programs in this feed. |
| 0:55.0 | You're about to hear something gripping, extraordinary, and seriously unforgettable. |
| 1:01.0 | So even before I learned about the partition, even on the TV or if we were playing like a board game and like something about Pakistan came up, it was just like a hush in the family, you know? This is Sparsh, |
| 1:15.0 | born in India and raised in Australia, |
| 1:19.0 | when we speak, he's living in Britain. |
| 1:24.8 | That hush in his family began 75 years ago when British India was divided into India and |
| 1:31.7 | Pakistan, but Sparsh wanted to see if the silence could be broken. |
| 1:37.0 | I started spending more time with my grandfather. |
| 1:39.0 | We'd play chess together, have breakfast together. |
| 1:42.0 | Soon he began noticing small clues. |
| 1:45.0 | Little things like someone give him a call and he had to write down a number, he'd write down in Urdu. |
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