Three Million

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Episodes

Total: 8

7. Road to the Past

2024/8/29

Kavita Puri goes to India to meet some of the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine. She looks fo

6. Silk Scarves

2024/6/12

80 years ago at least 3 million Indians, who were British subjects, died in the Bengal famine. But t

5. Ghosts

2024/3/11

The Bengal Famine, particularly the experiences of people in the rural areas who suffered the most,

4. The Tapes

2024/3/11

Kavita discovers a set of cassette tapes containing rare interviews with Indian civil servants who w

3. The F-Word

2024/3/11

Colonial authorities wanted to censor the famine. They were worried that Britain’s wartime enemies -

2. The Cigarette Tin

2024/3/11

A boy decides how much rice he can give from a cigarette tin to hungry people. A Christian missionar

1. War

2024/3/11

During the Second World War, at least three million Indian people, who were British subjects, died i

The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three millio