Series 5
Episode 1
British South Asians and the noughties: pioneers and a backlash.
- 28 mins
- 08 Apr 2022
BBC Sounds - Three Pounds in My Pocket - Available Episodes
Three Pounds in My Pocket
Kavita Puri hears the stories of pioneering Asians who came to Britain from the 1950s onwards.
Episodes (15 Available)
- Series 5
Episode 2
British South Asians and the noughties: too British or not British enough?
- 28 mins
- 15 Apr 2022
- Series 5
Episode 3
Personal reflections from British South Asians on surviving - and thriving - in Britain.
- 28 mins
- 22 Apr 2022
Series 4Episode 1
British South Asians and the 1990s: a golden decade
- 28 mins
- 08 Jan 2021
- Series 4
Episode 2
2001: the year everything changed for British South Asians
- 28 mins
- 15 Jan 2021
- Series 4
Episode 3
Different generations of South Asians reflect on what it means to belong in Britain.
- 28 mins
- 22 Jan 2021
Series 3Episode 1
Dramatic upheavals in the 1980s for Britain’s South Asians.
- 28 mins
- 06 Dec 2019
- Series 3
Episode 2
Dramatic upheavals in the 1980s for Britain’s South Asians.
- 28 mins
- 13 Dec 2019
- Series 3
Episode 3
Personal reflections rarely voiced from British South Asians.
- 28 mins
- 20 Dec 2019
Series 2Episode 1
The turbulent years from 1968 to 1976 for South Asians in Britain.
- 28 mins
- 05 Aug 2015
- Series 2
Episode 2
Kavita Puri looks at the turbulent years from 1976 to 1981 for South Asians in Britain.
- 28 mins
- 12 Aug 2015
- Series 2
Episode 3
Early pioneers to Britain from the Indian subcontinent in conversation with their children
- 28 mins
- 19 Aug 2015
Series 1Episode 1
Migrants from the Indian subcontinent recall coming to the UK in the '50s with just £3.
- 28 mins
- 07 Mar 2014
Series 1Episode 2
Pioneer women who arrived from India in the 50s and 60s recall their first impressions.
- 28 mins
- 14 Mar 2014
- Series 1
Episode 3
Where do the pioneer generation call home now and how do they hold onto their own culture?
- 28 mins
- 21 Mar 2014
