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I hope you enjoy the program. Hello an empire is built on many things powerful

armies good administration sometimes strong leadership but perhaps its secret weapon lies in its

culture. Culture governs, or at least influences, our language, our art and architecture,

education, law and philosophy, and even our dress sense and manners.

To govern the culture is perhaps to govern the world.

What was the role of culture in the Greek, Roman and British empires?

How did these empires impose their cultural influence and how much did they

absorb from the places that they colonized? And if America controls the cultural

gender today, what is it? And should we accept it or be resistant to it.

With me to discuss Cultural Imperialism is Linda Collie,

School Professor of History at the London School of Economics,

Philip Dodd,

director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts,

and Mary Beard, reader in classics at

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