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Kavita Puri hears the stories of Asians who came to Britain from the 1950s onwards.

Kavita Puri hears the stories of pioneering Asians who came to Britain from the 1950s onwards.

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Pioneer women who arrived from India in the 50s and 60s recall their first impressions.

The pioneer women who arrived from the Indian subcontinent in the 50s and 60s with as little as £3 recall their first impressions of Britain.

We tell the untold story of the women and children from the Indian subcontinent who came to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Many remember arriving with little more than £3 in their pockets because of currency restrictions imposed by their governments back home. Kavita Puri hears the story of the pioneer women of this three-pound generation: their first impressions of Britain, the unlikely friendships, and their struggles at work. And we learn how in 1966 when England won the World Cup, these women were more excited by Miss India winning Miss World; which they said, put Indian women on the map!

Producer Smita Patel
Editor Bridget Harney.

Three Pounds in My Pocket: Series 1

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Kavita Puri presents the stories of the pioneering migrants from the Indian subcontinent

Kavita Puri hears the stories of the pioneering migrants who came to Britain from the Indian subcontinent in the 1950s and 1960s

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