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Empire: World History

10. Killing for the Koh-i-Noor

Empire: World History

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4.55.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Divide and rule, a man described as Brian Blessed but ‘with a bigger, bushier, blacker beard’, and a whole lot of regicide. Join Anita and William as they continue to take us through the rip-roaring history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/empire Twitter: @EmpirePodUk goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you want access to bonus episodes reading lists for every series of empire, a chat community,

0:06.7

discounts for all the books mentioned in the week's podcast, add free listening and a weekly

0:11.5

newsletter, sign up to Empire Club at

0:14.4

W.

0:15.1

W. Empire pod UK.com. Welcome back to Empire with me Anita Arnnan and me William de Rimpel

0:34.8

to say it has not gone unnoticed how well you do at now.

0:38.0

I sit here with my family practicing it morning after.

0:44.3

Yeah, no I'm proud of you.

0:46.1

I am very proud of you.

0:48.0

We're back on the path of Gore, aren't we again this week?

0:52.0

This is another special week of Coenor where we throw two episodes dripping in blood atcha.

0:58.0

And this episode, episode 3 contains your favorite bit of Dieter, the roulette wheel of death as you used to call it on our Blecture tour

1:05.8

I tell you what there is an awful lot of killing shooting and a stabbing and a poisoning that goes on in this particular bit.

1:13.4

A bludging?

1:14.4

A bludgening?

1:15.4

There's also a share of bludgining?

1:17.0

I mean basically you name it.

1:19.0

If Angela Lansbury were here, murder she wrote and wrote and wrote wrote, and wrote, because there's a lot.

1:23.4

It's what I'd say. So just for those of you who weren't up to speed, this is the third episode of our

1:31.3

four-part series on the Cooenor Diamond in the first two

1:34.4

episode of this series we took you through the history of this time which in many

1:37.4

ways is a symbol of the complexity of empire and empires. Many different kingdoms regard this diamond as their own.

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