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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me William Drimpel.

Now we are very excited. Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan and me William Drimple.

Now we are very excited our special guest star today.

I think you call you the Brad Pitt of the publishing world really these days.

Satnam Sengera is with his empire land.

He didn't push back on that.

No, well, it took the world by storm.

How imperialism has shaped modern Britain.

Book of the Year.

Book of the Year, it's won countless awards and prizes,

and it has been the bedrock of a lot of political debate

in our sphere here in the United Kingdom.

Can I just start off with just one thing?

I don't know whether you feel slightly resentful that, you know, here you are,

you're talking to me and William.

And William can bang on about

empire quite a lot he doesn't get a single death threat and you have copious amounts of

horror in your post bag yeah no it's actually I feel grateful because I feel like I'm not on a historian and historians who have quoted at length in my book have been so kind and I feel like I'm kind of

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