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India and Pakistan '07
14th August 1947 saw the last hours of British rule in India. At the stroke of midnight, the subcontinent gained its independence and modern India and Pakistan were born.
The 60th anniversary of independence was marked with a compelling season of programmes on BBC television, radio and online.
Special programmes on Radio 4 are listed below.
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Monday 30th July - Friday 3rd August and
Monday 6th August - Friday 10th August at 10.45am (Rpt 7.45pm)
Woman's Hour Drama - Q&A:
Best selling contemporary Indian novel by Vikas Swarup about a young man who somehow finds himself a part of a police investigation when he wins a billion rupees on the first broadcast of Who Wants to be a Billionaire in India. Recorded on location in Mumbai.
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Friday 3rd August 2007 at 11.00am
Cities Divided:
Some cities in India and Pakistan are experiencing an unprecedented economic boom; others are still suffering the continuing effects of Partition 60 years on. This is the story of the gulf between rich and poor, literate and illiterate, and how each city has a different story to tell depending on its location and the make-up of the communities who live or migrated there. We will hear individual stories, backed up by recent research, giving us a greater understanding of the economic effects of Partition on cities in India and Pakistan, how they have recovered & adapted and who the winners and losers are.
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Saturday 4th August 2007 at 2.30pm
Feluda - The Golden Fortress:
Dramatisation of the first Satiyat Ray Feluda detective novel. Co presentation with World Ser vice of the incredibly popular detective novels by India's greatest film maker with an all star Bollywood cast.
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Saturday 4th August 2007 at 8.00pm
Debating the Divide:
Sarfraz Manzoor chairs a debate at Southampton University about new ways of understanding Partition sixty years on. Academics from around the globe, writers and intellectuals gather to discuss the latest thinking - from fresh perspectives on British withdrawal to recent oral testimony, and from reassessment of existing archive material to the ever-present problem in Kashmir.
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Monday 6th August 2007 at 8.00pm
Jinnah:
Jinnah is recognised as the architect of Partition, the man who called for a separate Muslim homeland in 1940. He saw his dream achieved in the creation of Pakistan in 1947, just a year before his untimely death from tuberculosis. But what kind of man was he, and would he have approved of Pakistani society today? Sarfraz Manzoor returns to the country of his birth to find out more about the man called 'Quaid-i-Azam', or 'Great Leader', and his legacy in Pakistan's complex web of religion and politics.
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Thursday 9th August 2007 at 11.00am
Crossing Continents:
Crossing Continents investigates a region of the Subcontinent, whose inclusion into India at the end of the Raj, is shrouded in controversy.
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Friday 10th August 2007 at 11.00am
Gandhi's Dream:
Independence must begin at the bottom, wrote Gandhi in the 1940's. While some of the country is undergoing an extraordinary economic boom, Gandhi's dream of an independent India based on the village republic seems to be all but dead. The dramatic advances enjoyed by India's urban elite have yet to have much bearing on the lives of the rural poor. In many communities village life is harder than it's ever been and the suicide rate among farmers is at an all-time high. Engaging once more in politics might be the only lifeline.
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Saturday 11th August 2007 at 2.30pm
Husud:
Samina Baig contemporary thriller about how jealousy undermines a business family in bangalore.
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Sunday 12 August at 12.30pm
The Food Programme:
Sheila Dillon explores explores the food of Bengal. What happened to food production and supply during and after Partition? Studio guests taste hilsa and discuss the unifying effect of that fish on both communities.
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