DR. JANAM MUKHERJEE FEATURED IN BBC DOCUMENTARY "THREE MILLION"

DR. JANAM MUKHERJEE FEATURED IN BBC DOCUMENTARY THREE MILLION

Dr. Janam Mukherjee, Associate Professor of History at Toronto Metropolitan University, has worked as the primary historical advisor and is featured in interviews on the upcoming BBC Radio 4, five-part documentary series on the Bengal Famine of 1943, Three Million. Dr. Mukherjee worked closely on this project with award-winning BBC reporter Kavita Puri, renowned for her earlier documentary on the Partition of India. Puri explains why she made Three Million: "After eighty years, the generation who lived through the war is diminishing, and these remarkable testimonies will soon no longer be able to be recorded. There is a real urgency in capturing them now. There is no memorial, museum, or even a plaque – anywhere in the world – to the millions who perished during the Bengal famine. This series recovers some of these overlooked human stories and is an aspect of our war story that is not well known."

Three Million, detailing in critical depth both the history and the experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, will begin airing on BBC Sounds on February 23rd, on BBC Radio on February 25th, and on the BBC World Service on March 2. Running on the BBC, this series will reach a large world-wide audience, hopefully bringing this man-made mass death event to wider international attention. Do tune in!

For more on the series, visit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/documentary-series-three-million-radio-4-world-service (external link)