24. The Fall of Constantinople

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The biggest gun in history. A giant underwater chain. A previously unconquerable fortress. Inspirational leaders. Join William and Anita as they discuss the extraordinary story of 1453 and the Fall of Constantinople. To get your free two week trial for Find my past, go to www.findmypast.co.uk and sign up. LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/xempire 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,
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0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnun.
0:23.0	And me, William. Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan
0:33.7	and me William Drumpel.
0:35.6	Applause for the pause.
0:36.6	Well done you.
0:38.6	Look, wasn't last week fabulous?
0:41.3	Peter Francapan.
0:42.3	Oh, Franca manka! Franca manka really knocked it. week fabulous Peter Frankapan. Oh Frankamanca,
0:43.2	Frankamanca really knocked it out of the park.
0:45.6	Wasn't he? He was just fabulous and took us over two episodes
0:51.2	through the collapse of Vantium and the beginning of the story that we have been
0:57.4	you know really excited to tell you which is the Ottoman Empire.
1:00.4	He has this extraordinary range what was interesting was seeing in a sense all three of his books coming into play.
1:05.8	We had a little bit of Attachameena, the first crusade and his first wonderful book, The Call from East,
1:11.7	which was the first book of his I read, and I remember inviting
1:14.3	him to Jaipur long before he became the famous Peter Franklin of the silk raids to talk about
1:17.9	crusades. And we first of all bonded on stage talking about a wonderful Arab memoirs called Zama Ibn
1:25.1	Munkwitt who he had written about and anyway it was he's wonderful on that then you
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