Professor Rana Mitter on the 70th anniversary of the fall of Singapore in 1942
Rana Mitter spoke on BBC Radio 4 Today programme (15 February), on the 70th anniversary of the fall of Singapore in 1942.
With Richard Overy, Professor of History at Exeter University, he discussed the historic significance and contemporary political resonance of the defeat, one of the most humiliating events in the history of the British Empire.
Listen again here (starts at c.02:24 on the iplayer clock)
