Radicalisation of Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning is the 24-year-old US soldier accused of the release of thousands of US embassy emails to Wikileaks. On Friday 16th December 2011 his pre-trial hearing opened in Fort Meade in Maryland. Manning faces a maximum sentence of life in custody with no chance of parole. But just a few years ago he was a teenager in west Wales. How does his story impact on the people he left behind and who is responsible for his 'radicalisation'?<br/><br/><i>The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning</i> aims to place him in the pantheon of great Welsh radicals from the Chartists to Aneurin Beva. This young soldier who names the president of the United States as a defence witness knows bus timetables around Haverfordwest. This young man who played a part in the Arab spring knows the trials of schoolboy rugby. This young soldier who apparently chose his moral code over his military one speaks rudimentary Welsh.<br/><br/>Tim Price's trademark humanity warmth and wit depicts a complex portrait of Manning as a modern-day troubled and flawed martyr but a martyr nonetheless.