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This Sceptred Isle: Empire
- The Classic BBC Radio History
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Anna Massey, Rob Brydon, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap, Robert Powell, Christopher Eccleston, Denis Lawson, Various
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
Christopher Lee's highly acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of the British Empire.
Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400 million people saluted George V. Truly, the sun never set on this historical phenomenon. Whatever the day, whatever the hour, somewhere on the globe, the empire worked and played the British game, often absurdly so.
BBC Radio 4's monumental history of Britain tells the story of the British Empire from its earliest beginnings through the years when British influence grew steadily around the globe, years when Britain took full advantage of the technical advances of its industrial revolution.
Here are the origins of the modern nations of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and of the ways in which British influence has affected, for better or for worse, nations such as India, Sri Lanka and China. Here are the stories, not always happy and glorious, of Captain James Cook, Mungo Park, Warren Hastings, Sir Stamford Raffles and David Livingstone.
The story of the British Empire is one of enormous personalities, adventure, scientific and maritime development and the building of one of the most complex international administrations the world has ever seen.
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- Molentech
- 21-08-21
Superb
I have enjoyed this book and found it very interesting and certainly listen to it again and again.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-07-21
Compelling
As with the other releases in the BBC 'This Sceptred Isle' series, this one uses the same 15 minute episode structure, to tell the story of the British Empire. This structure of 15 minute episodes, works very well, it helps the listener to have stories told in short, but precise amounts. The BBC have used it on their audiobooks of Russia: The Wild East, and also America: Empire of Liberty, also great narrative histories. Christopher Lee, who died only this year, was clearly very gifted a taking complex historical events and being able to tell them in a way that is understandable, interesting and indeed compelling.
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- vivien gray
- 23-06-23
Sceptred isle Empire
Excellence of information related in an interesting and entertaining manner.
I look forward to reading more.
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