The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

History Extra podcast

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🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In a talk she delivered at our 2019 BBC History Magazine History Weekend in Winchester, author and BBC broadcaster Anita Anand tells the dramatic story of one man’s decades-long quest for revenge following the 1919 Amritsar massacre. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.2	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine. I'm Ellicothon. On today's episode we've got another lecture from our history weekend events last autumn.
1:22.0	In this talk, recorded at our Winchester History weekend in 2019,
1:26.9	the historian and author Anita Anand is speaking about her book, The Patient Assassin,
1:33.4	which tells the story of one man's 20-year quest for vengeance
1:37.5	following the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.
1:40.6	While we're not currently holding live events, we are running a series of fortnightly virtual
1:45.2	lectures on various different historical topics.
1:48.4	You can find out more about them on our website at History Extra.com forward slash events.
1:54.0	Thank you very much indeed Rob and can I just thank all of you very lovely people for being here today and not expecting me to say anything at all at any point about Brexit.
2:13.0	I can't tell you that makes me feel slightly giddy
2:15.9	with the excitement of it.
2:17.7	So yes, I am here to talk about a book
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