Why does Kashmir matter to people here?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As tensions mount between India and Pakistan, Matthew Price goes behind the scenes of Qasa Alom’s show on the BBC Asian Network to find out why it is such an emotive subject for different generations of British Asians. He also speaks to World Service presenter Anu Anand, whose family fled Kashmir, about how the conflict continues to impact her identity and that of many others outside South Asia. Producers: Duncan Barber and Philly Beaumont Editor: John Shields Mixed by Weidong Lin

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.3	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.0	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.8	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today why does Kashmir matter to people here?
0:27.0	This is a So this morning I went down to Studio 34 here in Broadcasting House with Duncan
0:38.9	who is helping to produce today's episode and we sneaked in quietly at the back.
0:44.4	It's quite a small studio. They keep the lights low in there, but there's a bank of TVs and
0:50.4	red lights showing you that the mics are all live. There were five people in the studio.
0:55.0	One running the desk with all its faders. There was another on the phones and watching the messaging and
1:05.2	social feeds and sending a text on in our hand. And through the glass in front of them taking to social media in particular.
1:12.7	And through the glass in front of them,
1:15.3	Kasser Alum, who's the presenter.
1:18.5	We've got Ish Stark Hussein.
1:19.9	We're going to go to Anaka, who's gone in touch from Leicester.
1:22.1	We've still got Dr Natasha Corn as well. It's 1020 here on the Big Debate.
1:26.0	The program that he fronts is on the BBC's Asian network. It's called The Big Debate.
1:31.0	It goes out every day. And the calls that were coming in were all
1:34.7	about one subject. Kashmir and that goes across all generations whether
1:39.3	they're British Asians, young born here or people that have emigrated and come over here in the 50s and 60s.
1:46.5	It doesn't matter whether you're from India or Pakistan or Kashmir.
1:49.4	The only thing people have been wanting to talk about is Kashmir.
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