interviewed on imperial war museums’ podcast series ‘conflict of interest’ (01/2025)
Diya Gupta joined IWM curator Geoff Spender and actor Susan Wokoma as they explored the wartime home front in Episode 2, Season 3.
interviewed on channel four documentary ‘the soldiers that saved britain’ (11/2024)
Diya Gupta spoke on Indian men evacuated from Dunkirk and sent to Scotland.
interviewed on national geographic/disney’s documentary series ‘erased': D-Day’ (08/2024)
Diya Gupta was interviewed in Episode 1: Dunkirk
award-winning bbc radio 4 podcast series ‘three million’ (02/2024)
Diya Gupta was interviewed for the series and served as academic consultant.
podcast for history extra (08/2023)
Diya Gupta was 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 was 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 spoke on Indian soldiers at Dunkirk.
interviewed on channel 5’s documentary series ‘churchill’ (04/2021)
Diya Gupta spoke on Churchill and empire.
interviewed on channel 5’s documentary ‘how britain won World War Two’ (11/2020)
Diya Gupta spoke about remembering the contributions of men from the British Empire, focusing on Indian soldiers in the North African campaign.
POdcast for the ‘states of anarchy’ series: the war we forgot (09/2020)
Diya Gupta joined 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.