麻豆约拍 Radio 4 - Three Pounds in My Pocket

Three Pounds in My Pocket

Kavita Puri hears the stories of pioneering Asians who came to Britain from the 1950s onwards.

Bombay Jungle: How British Asians broke into London's club scene
The true story of DJ Mits Sahni.
Pramila Le Hunte: 'I tried to be the first female British Asian Tory MP'
Kavita Puri tells the story of Pramila Le Hunte for 麻豆约拍 News.
'How I became a secret daytime DJ'
Kavita Puri tells the story of one of the people behind the "daytimer" trend in Bradford.
Read Kavita Puri's article on Suresh Grover, written for 麻豆约拍 Magazine.
'The phone call that brought me freedom - but broke my mother's heart'
Kavita Puri tells the story of a painful conversation between mother and daughter.
'That's the loss of losing total Bengali identity'

Farah Sayeed and her mother Runi discuss whether migration always means loss.
'We are going to stay, it is our country, we are British'

Mohammed Ajeeb came to Britain in 1957 from Pakistan, and talks about life in the 1970's.
'I wasn't prepared to be a second class citizen'

Hear some clips from the upcoming second series of Three Pounds in My Pocket.
'People were friendly but cruelty was there as well'

Gurpashad Bance recalls peddling clothes in the 1950s after coming to the UK from India.

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