Kavita Puri

Kavita Puri is an award-winning journalist, executive producer, and broadcaster. She presents documentaries on Radio 4 and the World Service including The Inquiry. She devised, wrote, and presented the landmark three-part series Partition Voices for Radio 4, which won the Royal Historical Society’s Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize, and is the author of the critically acclaimed “Partition Voices: Untold British Stories” that was recently adapted for the stage by the Donmar Warehouse in London with Tara Theatre. She is the creator and presenter of the long-running Radio 4 series Three Pounds in My Pocket, which charts the social history of British South Asians from the post-war years. While editor of Our World, its foreign documentaries were recognized with awards including the Royal Television Society and the Foreign Press Association. She worked for many years at Newsnight.