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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Miranda Sawyer

The week in audio: Three Million; Who Trolled Amber?; Who We Are Now; A Muslim & a Jew Go There – review

a black and white photograph of a family sitting on the porch of a building in Bengal in 1943; some of them are emaciated
‘Rarely discussed’: people in Bengal in 1943, where 3 million died of starvation. Photograph: Alamy

Three Million (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds
Who Trolled Amber? | Tortoise Media
Who We Are Now | Global Player
A Muslim & a Jew Go There (Instinct Productions) | Apple Podcasts

Three Million, from Radio 4, is about the death of 3 million people. They died long ago, in 1943, during the second world war, but they weren’t lost in battle. They died of starvation in Bengal. I knew nothing about this, and from the start, Three Million’s presenter, Kavita Puri, careful and dogged, makes it clear that the Bengal famine is rarely discussed. Three million people died, but “there’s no memorial to them”, she says, “there’s no plaque”.

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