Imperial Echo

RADIO 4, 8.00PM

After this year’s Commonwealth Games have drawn to a close, BBC News Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond speaks to senior figures attending the 2018 London Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, as well as experts in the study of British and Commonwealth history, to chart the history of the institution and to ask some pertinent questions: does the Commonwealth have a glorious past, but a less interesting future? With its post-colonial mission to be “free and equal”, what does it achieve, and what defines it?