Was the 1990s a golden age for British South Asians?

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Kavita Puri discusses the experiences of British South Asians during the 1990s and early 2000s.

BBC journalist Kavita Puri discusses the new series of her Radio 4 documentary Three Pounds in My Pocket, which explores the experiences of British South Asians during the 1990s and early 2000s.

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0:43.3	Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine.
0:47.6	Britain's best-selling history magazine.
0:58.3	In today's episode, you'll be hearing from Kavita Puri.
1:02.4	Kavita is a BBC journalist and broadcaster who presents three pounds in my pocket on Radio 4.
1:09.2	Over three series so far, these programmes have used oral history to tell the stories of
1:14.7	South Asians and Britain since the 1950s. Series 4, which begins today on the 8th of January,
1:21.6	takes the story onto the turn of the 20th century. Here's a clip.
1:26.3	The al-Qaeda attacks on the twin towers immediately shaped politics and lives in Britain.
1:33.8	Workplaces predominantly Muslim. There was a lighting company, there's predominantly Asian
1:38.1	Pakistani. And the people that bought our sandwiches decide if they didn't already do that anymore.
1:43.8	In your front, for our lunch service, it was an immediate change in attitudes towards Muslim and Islam in the public square.
1:53.3	In olden, just months after the riot, Abdul's family felt that change straight away.
1:59.3	Two days after, my sister-in-law, she went to town, she got her headscarf ripped off her head and thrown
2:05.6	away and she was sputtered. I was eight months pregnant when 9-11 happened and we moved back to Liverpool then.
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