Dr Zareer Masani is a historian, author and broadcaster. He spent 20 years working for the BBC and has written 4 books on Indian history.

In this conversation we discuss the defamation of Sir Winston Churchill and the accusations that have been laid at his door in recent years. Is it true that he was responsible for the Bengal Famine of 1943? Should we judge him by the standards of today or the context of his time? Was he a racist, a nationalist, a white supremacist, or none of the above?

We also discuss whether Britain should be ashamed of its history, whether or not the British Empire was a national disgrace, and if stolen artefacts should be removed from museums and returned to their countries of origin.

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