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15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary

Ameet Chana

Vincent Ebrahim

Sagar Arya

Stephen Hogan

Nicholas Khan

Tanika Gupta

Nadia Molinari

15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary: Episode 5

Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary

Episode 5

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary, Episode 5

Indian revolutionary Dinesh Gupta faces execution.

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.

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By Tanika Gupta. Drama set in 1930s Calcutta telling the true story of Dinesh Gupta

By Tanika Gupta. Set in 1930s Calcutta and based on letters and diary entries, this drama tells the true story of Tanika's great uncle Dinesh Gupta and his resistance to British colonial rule

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