Kavita Puri

Kavita Puri is an award-winning journalist, executive producer and broadcaster. She devised, wrote and presented the landmark series Partition Voices for BBC Radio 4 which won the Royal Historical Society’s Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Partition Voices: Untold British Stories. Kavita is a presenter on The Inquiry, and the creator and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Three Pounds in My Pocket charting the social history of British South Asians from the post-war years. It is on its fifth series. She was the editor of Our World, and worked for many years at Newsnight.