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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and Welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan

and me William Dal Rumpful.

You leap in faster now.

It's almost as if you now know your name.

It's great.

I'm learning a lot of the series.

Now listen, listen here. I'm learning a lot of the series.

Now listen, listen here.

So we've been talking about the East India Company

if you are listening to this in sequence

and there's no reason why you have to,

but if you are, we were last talking about the inexorable

rise of one Robert Clive, Clive of India to some, Clive the villain

buhiss to others. So when we last left Clive, he is there receiving the Duane for India, so this is the right to govern.

And so things look pretty rosy.

So Clive has a gift throughout his life. and so things look pretty crazy.

So Clive has a gift throughout his life of astonishing timing.

He's always in the right place at the right time and he has an amazing ability to outflank his opponents of every sort.

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