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The Rest Is Politics

Introducing Empire

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Government

4.511.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today's feed drop features historian and friend of the show William Dalrymple discussing our new sister podcast, Empire, which he hosts alongside broadcaster Anita Anand. How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? This new show explores the stories, personalities and events of empire over the course of history. The first series looks at the British in India, covering The East India Company, the Raj, Gandhi, Independence and Partition. In the opening episode, William and Anita discuss the rise of The East India Company, exploring how a small corporation with only a handful of employees came to rule India. The episode begins with the birth of the Company in Tudor England and culminates with Robert Clive and the Battle of Plassey. Listen to the second episode of Empire below: Apple - apple.co/3A0tEw9 Spotify - spoti.fi/3K4LZNk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now, before we get started today, a bit of

0:02.2

moderately exciting news, I hope. We've got our final live show

0:05.6

of the year, next Tuesday, December 13 at a sold out Royal Alba Hall,

0:11.5

which is a bit weird, frankly. It's going to be our kind of end of the year review,

0:15.9

looking back at the craziest year in British politics, probably since last

0:20.0

year, frankly. And we know that quite a lot of you missed out on tickets,

0:24.0

and we're very sorry about that, and also that some of you who've got tickets

0:28.0

may not be able to make it to London, I've had a few messages like that

0:31.6

because of the train struts, etc. So we are going to make a live stream of the

0:36.4

event available exclusively to subscribers to the restus politics plus.

0:42.8

And if you may know, that's where you can sign up to avoid adverts and

0:48.1

get access to events and all sorts of other stuff. So just go to

0:52.4

www.therestuspolitics.com to sign up. It will not break the bank even in this

0:58.8

cost of living crisis. So we started 8pm next Tuesday night.

1:02.8

Join Royal Me live on stage as we try to cram 2022 into a couple of hours.

1:09.5

That's www.therestuspolitics.com. Sign up now and we'll send out the link

1:15.6

next Tuesday night. Enjoy the show.

1:23.6

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1:27.3

on the restus politics, I try to be as open and frank as possible when I'm

1:30.3

talking about mental health. And there've been plenty of times in my life when

1:33.4

I found it hard to figure things out of myself and needed somebody in my

1:36.2

corner to help me work things through. And sometimes you do need a therapist to

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