BBC RADIO
BBC Radio Asian Network – Tuesday 15 August 2017
Asian Network’s Big Debate with Tulip Mazumdar (2hrs57)
BBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking – Monday 14 August 2017
Partition: Novelists’ views of India and Pakistan now (45min)
Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam talk borders, migration, love and religious differences with Anne McElvoy, plus Gurinder Chadha on her film about partition Viceroy’s House.
BBC Radio 3 – Monday 14 August 2017
John Siddique – The Essay, The Culture of Partition (15min)
BBC Radio 3 – Wednesday 16 August 2017
Amina Yaqin – The Essay, The Culture of Partition (15min)
BBC Radio 3 – Wednesday 16 August 2017
The Essay, New Generation Thinkers – Partitioned Memories (15min) with Anindya Raychaudhuri, from the University of St Andrews
BBC Radio 3 – Sunday 20 August 2017
Words and Music – Partition with Sanjeev Bhaskar
BBC Radio 4
Partition Voices (3-part series of around 45min each) with Kavita Puri
Episode 1: The Division – Monday 31 July 2017 (45min)
Episode 2: The Aftermath – Monday 7 August 2017 (42min)
Episode 3: The Legacy – Monday 14 August (42min)
BBC Radio 4 – Friday 11 August 2017
Sir Cyril Radcliffe The Man Who Drew The Line (28min) with Jannat Jalil
BBC Radio 4 – Monday 14 August 2017
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie in Conversation (15min)
BBC Radio 4 – Monday14 August 2017 & Tuesday 15 August 2017
Midnight’s Children, Dramatisation of Salman Rushdie’s novel
BBC Radio 4 – Tuesday 15 August 2017
Throwing Out Nehru (38min) with historian Dr Zareer Masani
BBC Radio 4 – Saturday 12 August 2017
The Forum: Indian Princely States (41min) Rajan Datar is joined by historian William Dalrymple, Sunil Khilnani the director of the King’s College London India institute, and the Indian social scientist Nikita Sud from Oxford University.
BBC Radio Leeds – Tuesday 15 August 2017
Nick Ahad’s New Play “Partition” (1hr)
BBC World Radio – Sunday 30 July 2017
The Documentary: The Children of Partition (50min) with Mark Tully
BBC World – Tuesday 8 August 2017
Pakistan, Partition and the Present Part 1 (27min)
BBC World – Wednesday 9 August 2017
Pakistan, Partition and the Present Part 2 (27min)
BBC World Radio – Saturday 12 August 2017
BBC TELEVISION
CBBC – Tuesday 8 August 2017
Newsround special “Finding My Family – Partition” (24min)
The BBC has also created a guide for children titled “What was the Partition of India?”, which includes stories from children whose family members experienced Partition.
You can find the guide here.
BBC1 – My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 (2 Episodes) with Anita Rani
Episode 1: Wednesday 9 August 2017 (59min)
Episode 2: Wednesday 16 August 2017 (59min)
BBC2 – Dangerous Borders: A Journey Across India & Pakistan (3 Episodes) with journalists Babita Sharma and Adnan Sarwar
Episode 1: Monday 14 August 2017 (59min)
Episode 2: Monday 21 August 2017 (59min)
Episode 3: Monday 28 August 2017 at 21:00 (59min)
BBC2 – Tuesday 15 August 2017
Seven Days in Summer: Countdown to Partition (59min) narrated by Ayesha Dharker with interviews of academics as Dr Yasmin Khan, Dr Alex von Tunzelmann, Dr Anindita Ghosh, Dr William Gould and writer Nisid Hajari
BBC2 – Tuesday 15 August 2017
Newsnight – Partition 70 Years On (1hr) with Kirsty Wark
BBC4 – Tuesday 22 August 2017
India’ Partition: The Forgotten Story (1hr) with film-maker Gurinder Chadha
BBC2 SCOTLAND – Sunday 13 August 2017 (1hr)
Partition: Legacy of the Line with Sanjeev Kohli and Aasmah Mir
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