The Strike of Midnight

Kavita Krishnan: I think we've not done justice to the man who drew the line and why the line was so damaging. Cyril Radcliffe, of whom it was said, never traveled east of Paris. He didn't really want to go to India. He had never been there before. It was too hot, too awful. And just pick up the story, Kavita, of what he was asked to do and how much time he was given to do it. She says Mount Batton brought forward the transfer date - which was meant to be June 1948. But that happened in the 90s but began earlier in India.