Anita Arnand

Edwina Mountbatten died in the jungles of Borneo.

The year was 1960, and she was all alone.

Well, alone, I say, except she was surrounded by letters.

And they weren't letters, as you might think, from her husband, Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India.

No, these were letters from the man that she truly loved, the scourge of the British Empire, the first prime minister of a free India.

His name was Jawaharlal Nehru.

Now, this fascinating love triangle is so pertinent when it comes to pre-partition India politics.

And we're going to be delving right in in a mini series, a four-parter for you.

And it's only available to members of our club.

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And as if you needed any more incentive, let me tell you, our very special guest is the marvellous Alex von Tunzelman, who is the author of Indian Summer.

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He abandoned 3,000 years of theology, of temples.

He moved the capital to a new city that he'd conjured from the bare desert.

And then he declared that there was only one god worthy of worship, the Sundisk, the Aten.

So look, in this six-part series, we're going to be exploring these three famous ancient Egyptians and the extraordinary revolution that lay at the center of their world.