Sir Anthony Seldon The Path of Light

Inspired by a fallen World War I soldier who dreamed of a ‘Via Sacra’ to commemorate the war dead and stand as a marker for the triumph of peace, the acclaimed educator and political biographer set out on a 1000km walk tracing the historic route of the Western Front. He’ll talk about his journey and recount his next moving walk from where World War I ended to Auschwitz, how he discovered the towns and people who resisted in the face of unbearable destruction, and the legacy of WWII.

Talking to John Jefferies