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15 Minute Drama

Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary

Episode 1

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Writing the Century explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people.

Set in 1930's Calcutta 'Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary' is the true story of Tanika Gupta's great uncle Dinesh Gupta and his resistance to British Colonial rule based on the letters he wrote while imprisoned in Alipore Jail and his brother Pritish Gupta's journals.

Directed by Nadia Molinari. Show less

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