Mukti Jain Campion investigates why, despite producing most of the world’s medical morphine, India’s own people have virtually no access to it and how a hospice in Shrewsbury is helping pioneers of the Indian palliative care movement to overcome the ignorance that surrounds this vital pain relieving-drug. (1 x 28′)
First broadcast March 2008 BBC Radio 4
Producers Mukti Jain Campion and Chris Eldon Lee
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Poet Daljit Nagra revels in the legendary dictionary of British India which brought hundreds of Indian words such as bungalow, shampoo and dinghy into the English language. With a new edition due to be published in 2013, Daljit looks back at its history and how it has seduced countless writers and poets since it was first published in 1886.
First broadcast July 2012 BBC Radio 4
Contributors include: Dr Kate Teltscher, Professor Javed Majeed, Tom Stoppard and Amitav Ghosh.
Readings by Tim Pigott-Smith and Vincent Ebrahim
Producer Mukti Jain Campion
Radio Choice: The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Telegraph, The Scotsman, The Daily Mail, The Times, The Independent
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From the first sailing of its ships to India in 1607, the English East India Company began a movement of people, goods and ideas that has linked the imaginations and fortunes of the people of Britain and the Indian subcontinent for 400 years. Mukti Jain Campion explores the extraordinary social legacy of the Company and of the early travellers who crossed the kala pani, into the unknown. (3 x 28′)
First broadcast January 2002 BBC Radio 4
Contributors include: Dr Huw Bowen, Dr Kate Teltscher, Rozina Visram, Professor Om Prakash, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Dr Laxshmi Subramanian, Dr Indira Ghose and Tapati Guha Thakurta.
Readers: Vincent Ebrahim, Christopher Holmes & Malindi O’Rorke
Producers Mukti Jain Campion & Chris Eldon Lee
A compelling listen – Paul Donovan, The Sunday Times
1: Identity How the Company changed the way Indians and Britons looked at themselves, and each other.
2: Sex The Company’s role originated many of the enduring myths about each country’s sexual behaviour.
3: Wealth How the Company changed the fortunes of millions of Indians and Britons.
Radio Choice: The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, Time Out, The Sunday Times
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Garden historian Caroline Holmes explores how former empires transplanted their plants and garden designs to the countries they ruled. (3 x 28′)
First broadcast April 2000 BBC Radio 4
Producer Mukti Jain Campion
1: The Roman Gardens at Fishbourne Palace, England
2: The Moorish Gardens of the Alhambra, Spain
3: Nuwara Eliya, the Garden City of Sri Lanka
Sheer, unadulterated pleasure for the listener – Martin Hoyle, Financial Times
Radio Choice: The Independent, The Observer, Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, The Financial Times, Radio Times
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Can the radical new “Party of the Common People” clean up Indian politics? As the largest democracy in the world goes to the polls, Mukti Jain Campion reports from Delhi on how the Aam Aadmi Party has put corruption under the spotlight. (1 x 28′)
First broadcast April 2014 BBC Radio 4
Contributors include: Yogendra Yadav & Rajmohan Gandhi of AAP, Mukul Kesavan, Political Commentator, Suhel Seth, columnist and brand consultant, Anil Verma of the Association for Democratic Reform, Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal, JNU Centre for Law & Governance, Dr Mukulika Banerjee (London School of Economics), Arnab Goswami, top TV Current Affairs host
Producer Mukti Jain Campion
Mukti Jain Campion explores the new global interest in Indian-style ingenuity. She meets some of India’s most famous jugaad innovators and discovers how their ideas and products may soon be going global. These range from grassroots innovations such as the Royal Enfield Bullet motorbike adaptation that turns it into a plough, the clay fridge that doesn’t need electricity to products developed for cash-strapped consumers everywhere such as the Aakash, the world’s cheapest computer tablet. (1 x 28′)
First broadcast October 2013 BBC Radio 4
Producer Mukti Jain Campion Executive Producer Charles Miller
Radio Choice: The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Daily Mail
Mukti Jain Campion makes really good radio programmes, ones that have an eye for a good story and an ear for the right way of telling it. – Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph
Mukti Jain Campion visits five pioneering projects that are bringing the internet to rural communities on the Indian subcontinent. (5 x 14′)
First broadcast June 2002 BBC Radio 4
Producer Mukti Jain Campion
These stories will amaze – Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph
1: Putting the I See into ICT Telemedicine comes to a south Indian village bringing eye care to the poor.
2: Making Waves A fishing community near Pondicherry where the internet is helping to catch fish and save lives.
3: Wise Women of the Web A women’s self-help group is connecting the village to the world through an internet centre in the local temple.
4: Browsing the Horizon Kothmale Community Radio has developed an innovative way of giving villages of Sri Lanka’s highlands access to the web.
5: Reducing Bureaucracy to Byte Size The villagers of Dhar are discovering the power of the internet in getting better local government.
Radio Choice: The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times,The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday
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In early 1942 the Japanese invaded Burma, forcing fifty thousand refugees to embark on a 1000-mile trek to India, mostly on foot. Overcome by the effects of disease and monsoon, more than half of them died. Stephen Brookes, Evan Edwardes and Yolande Rodda, three children who had once been at kindergarten together, did survive the arduous journey. Now in their seventies, they recall their harrowing experience through children’s eyes. (1 x 28′)
First broadcast January 2003 BBC Radio 4
Producer Chris Eldon Lee
Remarkable and moving – WH, The Guardian
Radio Choice: The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Independent on Sunday, The Times, The Sunday Telegraph
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“This is not a war. It is the ending of the world. This is just such a war as was related in the Mahabharata about our forefathers.” – an Indian soldier’s letter from the Western Front
On Remembrance Day Mukti Jain Campion pays tribute to the contribution of over a million men from the Indian subcontinent who volunteered to fight for the British in the First World War. A fascinating insight into the soldiers’ experiences on and off the battlefields of the Western Front comes from the poetic and poignant letters they wrote home. (1 x 28′)
First broadcast November 1999 BBC Radio 4 & November 2000 BBC World Service
The message powerfully and feelingly conveyed in Mukti Jain Campion’s documentary is that First World War historians have signally failed to acknowledge the part played by those Indian volunteers who fought on Britain’s side. -Peter Davalle, The Times
Contributors include: Dr David Omissi, Professor Linda Colley, Dominic Rai, and Dominiek Dendooven
Letter readings by Vincent Ebrahim, Rez Kempton and Dev Sagoo.
Soldiers’ songs performed by Baluji Shrivastav and the Man Mela Theatre Company.
Producer Mukti Jain Campion
Radio Choice: The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Scotsman, The Observer, Evening Standard, Time Out, Radio Times
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Photograph: IWM photos Q53887
The journey of a lifetime as Hsiao-Ying Tseng travels from Shropshire to south China to visit the two sisters she has never met. Her moving story reveals one human legacy of the Communist victory of 1949 when thousands of Chinese fled to Taiwan, leaving loved ones behind forever. (1 x 28′)
First broadcast Oct 2001 BBC Radio 4
Producer Chris Eldon Lee
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