Kavita Puri is a journalist and broadcaster for BBC Radio 4. Her new series about the Bengal famine, Three Million, is now available to stream on BBC Sounds
I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME OVER THE PAST year interviewing eyewitnesses and reading archival material relating to the 1943 Bengal famine. It has all been part of the research for my new BBC Radio 4 series Three Million, which I wrote about in last month’s issue of BBC History Magazine.