Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.

What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC

Sounds.

Choosing what to watch.

Night after night.

The flicking through. The endless searching is a nightmare. We want to help you. On our

brand new podcast off the telly we share what we've been watching.

Cladie aider. Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming, lovely.

Off the telly with me Joanna Paige and me, Natalie Cassidy,

so your evenings can be a little less searching

and a lot more watching listen on BBC

sounds you are listening to the witness podcast history as told by the people who

were there I am just Justin Rolat. The partition of India at independence in

1947 into Muslim majority Pakistan and Hindu majority India was accompanied by horrific bloodshed. It is estimated that at least

a million people were killed and more than 10 million displaced. Yet it was an episode of inter-religious violence exactly a year earlier that

had persuaded politicians that partition was inevitable. I've been speaking to two survivors about what has become known as the great

Calcutta killing. My name is Anandadabe Mukaji. I am a Hindu by what? At the time of the riot, I was only 8 years old.

I am Hosinur Rahman coming from a Bengali Muslim family and when the riot took place I was 12 years old.

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