British Empire

Plants: From Roots to Riches. Tapping into Rubber. Audio, 15 minutes
Kathy Willis explores the smuggling of rubber seeds from South America.
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BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Plants: From Roots to Riches. Plants to Shape Society. Audio, 15 minutes
How plants proved a new route to political power and the growth of Britain's Empire.
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BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Paper Commonwealth. Audio, 28 minutes
As the Glasgow Games begin, Dr Joya Chatterji explores the history of the Commonwealth.
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BBC Radio 4
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The Last Wish of a Prince. Audio, 28 minutes
Hardeep Singh Kohli finds out if Maharaja Duleep Singh's remains should go back to India.
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BBC Radio 4
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Acts of Union and Disunion. Greater Britains. Audio, 15 minutes
Linda explores the acts of union required to sustain the allegiance of British emigrants.
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BBC Radio 4
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Acts of Union and Disunion. Liberty. Audio, 15 minutes
Prof Colley challenges the notion of 'liberty' in Britain, from Magna Carta onwards.
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BBC Radio 4
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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.
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BBC Four
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1913: The Year Before. The Empire. Audio, 15 minutes
Michael explores the tensions that existed before 1914 between the Empire and its colonies
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BBC Radio 4
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1913: The Year Before. The Irish Question. Audio, 15 minutes
Michael challenges the idea that Irish rebellion started with the Easter Rising of 1916.
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BBC Radio 4
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Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here. Video, 57 minutes
Jeremy Black examines an extraordinary time in British history, the Industrial Revolution.
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BBC Two
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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
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BBC Radio 4 Extra
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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.
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BBC Radio 3
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In Our Time. Astronomy and Empire. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the relationship between astronomy and British Imperial expansion.
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BBC Radio 4
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Places That Changed The World. Delhi and the Decolonisation of India. Audio, 26 minutes
The end of the British Empire in 1947
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BBC World Service
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In Our Time. Tea. Audio, 150 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss tea, the first truly global commodity.
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BBC Radio 4
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In Our Time. The East India Company. Audio, 45 minutes
The history of the private trading company that helped forge the British Empire.
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BBC Radio 4
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The Story of Iraq. Modern Iraq Before 1968. Audio, 29 minutes
Documenatry series looking at the history of modern Iraq
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BBC World Service
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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
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BBC World Service
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Agenda. Legacy of British Colonialism. Audio, 25 minutes
The legacy of British colonialism. Do the pros outweigh the cons?
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BBC World Service
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Print the Legend. Fighting Nostalgia. Audio, 27 minutes
Films about the British Empire from the 1930s to 1950s
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BBC World Service
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African Perspective. King Prempeh. Audio, 28 minutes
The story of King Prempeh of Ghana and the colonial British Empire
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BBC World Service
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