podcast for history extra (BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed’s WEBSITE)
Diya Gupta is interviewed on the History Extra podcast series by Ellie Cawthorne on India in the Second World War: An Emotional History.
podcast for ‘new books network’ (07/2023)
Diya Gupta is interviewed by Ari Barbalat on India in the Second World War: An Emotional History.
adviser for BBC DRama ‘World on Fire’, series 2 (07/2023)
Diya Gupta advised on developing the character of Lieutenant Rajib Pal, the captain of a miners and sappers unit in the Indian Army during the Second World War, stationed in North Africa, and his men.
interviewed on channel 5’s documentary series ‘Dunkirk: mission impossible’ (02/2022)
Diya Gupta speaks on Indian soldiers at Dunkirk.
interviewed on channel 5’s documentary series ‘churchill’ (04/2021)
Diya Gupta speaks on Churchill and empire.
interviewed on channel 5’s documentary ‘how britain won World War Two’ (11/2020)
Diya Gupta speaks about remembering the contributions of men from the British Empire, focusing on Indian soldiers in the North African campaign. From 1.20 minutes in to 1.22 minutes in.
POdcast for the ‘states of anarchy’ series: the war we forgot (09/2020)
Diya Gupta joins Hamsini Hariharan to discuss narratives of World War II told through the letters sent by Indian soldiers from the battlefronts.
Adviser for BBC radio 4’s ‘legacy of war’ series (10/2020)
Millions of people in the Indian state of Bengal were killed by famine during World War Two. Many more were gravely affected. One of these was Syed Muzaffar Towheed, the father of Shafquat Towheed.