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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

The Poet Who Toppled The British Empire

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

India, 1930. Sarojini Naidu is marching towards a British-controlled saltwork; behind her is a long column of protestors all dressed in white. The great campaigner for India's Independence, Gandhi, is now in jail. In his place, he's chosen Naidu to lead this movement against the hard and fearsome British Empire.

Naidu and her marchers want change, and they want to achieve it peacefully. India's fate, they believe, depends on a non-violent path to resistance.

Today, there will be violence. But it won't come from them.

This is the final episode in a four-part series about how to succeed without being a jerk. This episode is based on David Bodanis' forthcoming book How To Change The World, which is scheduled to be published in late 2025.

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:09.0

I'm Dr.

0:10.0

I'm Dr. Lorry Santos, host of the happiness lab podcast.

0:12.0

Is the U.S. elections approach,

0:15.0

it can feel like we're angrier and more divided than ever.

0:18.0

But in a new hopeful season of my podcast,

0:22.0

I'll share with the science really shows that we're But in a new hopeful season of my podcast,

0:22.6

I'll share with the science really shows

0:24.7

that we're surprisingly more united than most people think.

0:27.8

We all know something is wrong in our culture,

0:30.6

in our politics, and that we need to do better and that we can do better.

0:34.7

Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:40.9

London. London, the 1st of July, 1999. It's South Kensington, a quiet but immensely wealthy neighborhood

0:52.8

full of grand townhouses, even mansions.

0:56.5

This particular evening, a retired army officer,

1:00.8

William Hut Curzon Wiley, is attending a grand reception at the Palatial Imperial Institute,

1:08.7

celebrating his efforts assisting students from India.

1:15.0

As the evening draws to a close, Curzon Wiley leaves the venue

1:18.0

and begins to walk down the elegant steps

1:25.0

for the Imperial Institute.

1:26.0

Suddenly, a young Indian man in gold-rimmed spectacles steps forward,

1:30.0

raises a pistol, and shoots him twice in the face as the old man sinks to the floor

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