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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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Three Pounds in My Pocket: Series 1: Episode 3

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Where do the pioneer generation call home now and how do they hold onto their own culture?

Kavita Puri asks the pioneer generation, who have spent most of their lives in Britain, where they consider home to be now and how they hold onto their own culture.

Men and women arriving from the Indian subcontinent in the 1950s and 1960s with as little as three pounds in their pockets recall their first impressions of Britain. In this final programme in the series, Kavita Puri talks to this pioneer generation who have spent most of their lives in Britain. Where is home now, she asks them, and how do you hold onto your own culture?

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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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