British Empire
Shipwrecks: Britain's Sunken History. A World Turned Upside Down. Video, 58 minutes
The story of shipwrecks moves into the Georgian age, when Britain ruled the waves.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 8 months
1913: The Year Before. The Empire. Audio, 15 minutes
Michael explores the tensions that existed before 1914 between the Empire and its colonies
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
1913: The Year Before. The Irish Question. Audio, 15 minutes
Michael challenges the idea that Irish rebellion started with the Easter Rising of 1916.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sport and the British. The Formal Empire. Audio, 15 minutes
Clare Balding reveals that sport was the glue that helped keep the British Empire together
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Great British Ideas, JA Hobson, Lenin and Anti-Imperialism. Audio, 45 minutes
Tristram Hunt discovers the decisive impact a liberal English journalist had on Lenin.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Astronomy and Empire. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the relationship between astronomy and British Imperial expansion.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Places That Changed The World. Delhi and the Decolonisation of India. Audio, 26 minutes
The end of the British Empire in 1947
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Tea. Audio, 150 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss tea, the first truly global commodity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. The East India Company. Audio, 45 minutes
The history of the private trading company that helped forge the British Empire.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Story of Iraq. Modern Iraq Before 1968. Audio, 29 minutes
Documenatry series looking at the history of modern Iraq
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Radio History of The World. India and the Coming of the British. Audio, 13 minutes
How the Mughal age of conflict-avoidance came to an end
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Agenda. Legacy of British Colonialism. Audio, 25 minutes
The legacy of British colonialism. Do the pros outweigh the cons?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Print the Legend. Fighting Nostalgia. Audio, 27 minutes
Films about the British Empire from the 1930s to 1950s
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. King Prempeh. Audio, 28 minutes
The story of King Prempeh of Ghana and the colonial British Empire
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Omnibus. Those Were The Days. Audio, 27 minutes
The story of Burnley and it's role as the heart of the British Empire
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Mbuya Nehanda Nyakasikana. Audio, 30 minutes
Find out how Mbuya Nehanda inspired a revolt against the British in 1896
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Omnibus. Raffles Hotel. Audio, 27 minutes
A visit to the famous Raffles Hotel in Singapore
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Colony. Video, 41 minutes
Documentary about West Indian immigrants now living in Birmingham. (1964)
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
