In 1981, 12 young men in Bradford were arrested for preparing to defend their community from fascists. 4 decades on, I spoke to them about their trial & the solidarity that helped secure their freedom. The Bradford 12 case was a pivotal moment in British legal history.🧵 #Defiance

Sounds of resistance resilience & defiance in my 70s/80s mixtape✊🏽ft #BobMarley #NaziaHassan UB40 #AshaBhosle The Specials Janet Kay Steel Pulse+
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The number of people forced to flee from war in Sudan has now surpassed 8.5 million. An appalling number.
They're now internally displaced, sheltering in Sudan, or refugees abroad. 'Thousands are crossing borders daily as if the emergency had started yesterday,' says UNHCR.

Such a deep and fascinating conversation @historyextra about #ThreeMillion @bbcsounds and making programmes on contentious history, and very special to speak to Rana Mitter, whose father Partha, is part of the series and an eye-witness to the #bengalfamine .

This makes me so happy - #ThreeMillion BBC Radio 4 @bbcsounds being used as a teaching resource.

Tara Theatre was founded in 1977 by a group of young Wandsworth residents…It was launched as a direct response to the racist murder of 17-year-old Gurdip Singh Chaggar. Read about our history here : taratheatre.com/about/our-stor…

The heart-breaking story of Gurdip Singh Chaggar #defiance #3poundsinmypocket

It's hard to explain how important #Defiance is - after nearly 50 years, finally this story is being told on British TV. It's shocking and painful to watch, but it happened. It's British history we should know. On now Channel 4 commissioned shaminder nahal
#3poundsinmypocket

Sharing this for a second time as I'm now fully into it. My family grew up in and around tea estates and have links to Calcutta, so this felt very emotional from the first episode. More history I had no idea about!

So proud that Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is the opening venue for the #Silence tour by Tara Theatre: real-life hidden histories based on testimonies of people who lived through partition, a moving and powerful piece of theatre, only with us until 13th April, do book: queens-theatre.co.uk/whatson/silenc…

Tomorrow Whitechapel Gallery come along for a day of talks on #Defiance - our series on the British Asian fightback against racist violence in 70s/80s - part of our collaboration Defiance : Channel 4 X Whitechapel - what’s changed since this period, how art & activism collided

A day of discussions at Whitechapel Gallery today inspired by #Defiance — a new Channel 4 series on how South Asians fought back against the fascists.

First discussion hosted by Shabna Begum ft. Suresh Grover of Southall Youth Movement, Kavita Puri & series producer Anoop Pandhal.

The past comes back, no matter how much you try to erase or ignore it.

Excellent work by Kavita Puri and the #ThreeMillion team:

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📢 EXCLUSIVE 📢

Tara Theatre proudly presents... In Conversation: Kavita Puri and Iqbal Khan

Hear Kavita Puri and Iqbal Khan discuss SILENCE, the importance of South Asian stories, and vital advice for emerging creatives

Premieres 5PM, Thu 4 Apr
Watch 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=cS6eQE…

Kavita Puri listened to the incredible #ThreeMillion whilst sitting on Eurostar to Paris - informative, insightful, shocking, balanced, British, Indian, history.
Tell the people, and the people's, stories that needs to be told!
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South Asian Heritage Month

Amazing energy at the launch of #Defiance this evening Whitechapel Gallery - the Channel 4 shaminder nahal series on the British Asian resistance against the far right, on the tele Monday at 9pm. Let’s make sure this story gets heard! Here with Kavita Puri and Rajesh Thind ✨

This alone makes this year's license fee worth it. #ThreeMillion the forgotten famine of Bengal. Superb reportage from Kavita Puri BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

What a lovely thing to say, thank you Mary. #ThreeMillion

First time I’ve binge-listened a podcast, fascinating, shocking and moving in equal measure, thank you Kavita Puri might there be a book?

‘Three Million’. Essential listening on the Bengal Famine, presented by Kavita Puri. Balanced and non-judgmental but no less a devastating account of British colonial policy & society.

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