Mishal Husain: Family, Unravelled

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Journalist, newsreader, and presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mishal Husain delves into her family’s past in her memoir, Broken Threads. Connecting fragments from her family history through letters and diaries, Husain discovers how her grandparents’ lives and identities were changed forever with the birth of India and Pakistan in 1947. Hear her discussing her fascinating journey of ancestral rediscovery with Dina Nayeri.

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