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15 Minute Drama

Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Calcutta 1931. Dinesh Gupta is in Alipore Jail sentenced to execution by hanging following his attack on the British Colonial Office Writers' Building where he shot a British officer dead. His family and Gandhi have appealed but will they succeed?

Concluding episode of Tanika Gupta's Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary part of Writing the Century our drama series exploring the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people.

Directed by Nadia Molinari. Show less

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