Railway of death on display

A 30-metre section of the notorious Thai-Burma railway, the so-called Railway of Death commissioned by the Japanese during World War II, is soon to go on permanent display in the UK.

The railway immortalised in the film The Bridge over the River Kwai cost the lives of many thousands of Allied prisoners and Asian forced labourers, either at the hands of their Japanese army captors, malnutrition or disease.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service