The Strange and Violent Case of Mr Biswas
Thursday 25 August 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Journeying through Glasgow of the 1920s and 30s, writer and academic, Sukhdev Sandhu goes on a personal quest to find the truth about a series of murders which have apparently been written out of Scottish history. Once described as the second city of empire and a place made fat on imperial trade Glasgow was home to a sizeable ethnic population but, as the race riots of 1919 demonstrated, there was an underlying tension which led to some startling and disturbing events. Recorded on location at key sites in Glasgow.
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