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Start the Week: Gandhi's Early Years

Gandhi's Early Years

18/11/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Gandhi's Early Years

Bridget Kendall with Ramachandra Guha, David Reynolds, Bronwen Maddox and Phelim McDermott

Bridget Kendall discusses Gandhi's early years with historians Ramachandra Guha and David Reynolds, opera director Phelim McDermott and journalist Bronwen Maddox.

Bridget Kendall looks back at the formative years of Gandhi with the historian Ramachandra Guha and opera director Phelim McDermott. At the turn of the twentieth century Gandhi spent more than twenty years in South Africa and England: Guha argues that these early experiences shaped his future ideas, while McDermott stages Gandhi's spiritual progress towards nonviolent protest in his production of the opera Satyagraha. Gandhi returned to India just after the outbreak of the First World War and the international historian David Reynolds looks at the legacy of the Great War, and its impact on the decision-makers of the future. The Editor of Prospect Magazine, Bronwen Maddox, explores its legacy.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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