Mark Tully's India cover art

Mark Tully's India

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Mark Tully's India

By: Mark Tully
Narrated by: Mark Tully
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

 This compilation of Mark Tully's acclaimed reports from India includes his specially recorded observations.

Sir Mark Tully was the BBC's Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at his career, which coincided with a remarkable period in Indian history.

©1997, 2007 BBC Audiobooks Ltd (P)1997, 2007 BBC Audiobooks Ltd Asia Entertainment & Performing Arts India Social Sciences South Asia Travel Writing & Commentary
All stars
Most relevant  
Great insights from veteran BBC journalist Mark Tully. Born in Calcutta he brings sensitivity together with critique and analysis, asking questions about how India functions and why. Self-narrated with numerous excerpts from commentaries and recorded interviews of the time, this offers deep insights which would be of interest to any serious observer or visitor. Although published some time back (Audible - how about providing clear dates of publication?) it remains of great value.



Tully has published numerous subsequent books - Audible should make the latest available - there will surely be many interested listeners as deserves tio be the case.



(Audible how about a requests area for audiobooks?)

Wonderful insights and perspectives

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Mark Tully's India is defintely for the listener. Radio interviews give us a slice of Indian history as it happen.

Many events are seen from the perspective of interviews by Mark Tully eg. at the assasination of Indria Gandhi, the Bopal disaster or the storming of the Golden Temple at Amritsar. All these and many more events are covered by Sir Mark during his time as BBC correspondent in India. These events were landmarks in the history of modern India in the second half of the 20th Century. They affected the rest of the world and were movingly recounted through interviews; these eye witness accounts are the way history is remembered.

As ever, Mark Tully's distintive voice adds colour, character and insight to the whole turbulent and colourful history of India in the second half of the 20th Century.

This interesting, if not tragic, part of the story of the Indian sub-continent, is worth remebering when visiting the temples and palaces of India.

Politics in India

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed this audiobook and was impressed by the author's depth of knowledge of the subject, often witnessed first or second hand. However, it seemed to end abruptly after just two chapters so there was no meaningful or profound analysis of what India is.

impeccably researched too short for such a huge t

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Would you listen to Mark Tully's India again? Why?

Positive. I will listen to this book again and again.

What does Mark Tully bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Clearly the actual recordings of all Interviews in the book.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Indira Gandhi Interview

Any additional comments?

I am a BIG fan of Mark Tully. So far I read all his books about India. In fact Mark Tully books are the only ones I have finished reading so far in my whole life. Most of the books I started reading, were dropped in the middle coz lack of interest in those. But when I read 'No Full Stops in India' (this is first book I read), I immediately bought all his books about India and read them all. After reading his books only I started reading other books. When I found Mark Tully's India in Audible, I know it will be good and I bought it.

Exciting enough for me, Apart from his narration he used actual recordings of Interviews he conducted with some of the legends. I did not know till then Audio books can be thrilling too. In one sentence - The very first book I read in my life and the very first audio book I listed to in my life are Mark Tully's. And I am not gonna stop reading and listening.

Thanks Mark. You are simply superb.

Great Book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.