In September 1931 the great Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi came to Britain to attend a conference on the future of his country. While in the UK he visited the depression-hit cotton towns of Lancashire, where he met mill owners and cotton workers, whose livelihoods were threatened by the Indian boycott of British cotton goods. Professor
Bhikhu Parekh , a lifelong admirer of Gandhi, tells the story of that extraordinary visit. Producer Libby Cross