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Andrew and Phil discuss the remarkable - and remarkably shocking - story of the East India Company. How did a handful of men in a small office in London come to rule India, transforming the histories of both nations?
William Dalrymple, author of the much acclaimed book 'The Anarchy’ joins them to tell a hair raising story of plunder, conquest, scandal and death.
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Williiam Dalrymple.
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Andrew Lownie.
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Phil Craig.
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Kerem Isik
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Every week bestselling author Andrew Lownie joins his life-long friend, the filmmaker and writer Phil Craig, to reveal the world’s greatest scandals.THE HOSTS...Andrew Lownie.Andrew read history at Cambridge before taking his doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and President of the Biographers’ Club, his royal books include The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke of Windsor.https://twitter.com/andrewlowniePhil Craig.Cambridge history graduate Phil Craig is an award winning filmmaker and the bestselling author of five non fiction books. As a senior producer on BBC Panorama, an executive producer of acclaimed international history documentaries and a network executive for Discovery Channel and ABC Australia, he’s told some of the biggest stories of our age. He is currently working on the final volume of his WW2 trilogy Finest Hour.https://twitter.com/philmcraigYou can now get in touch with the [email protected](Place 'Scandal Mongers' in the heading please)This show is Part of the PodcastWorld.org network.Recorded in Kentish Town, London.Production by Theo X, Kerem Isik, David Kurzer.Available on YouTube, ITunes, Stitcher, Spotify and Soundcloud.
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Get comfy. Find out what The Lowlander is, who was reading it this week in 1944, and why these first editions are so dog-eared and soggy - as the attack moves forward on Walcheren Island. Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters get straight into the stories and snippets being shared among the men of the 52nd Lowland Division ...
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At war with words! Expect context, conflict (and plenty of confusion) as Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters explore the pages of 'The Lowlander' --- the army newsletter printed daily for the men of the 52nd Lowland Division between mid-November 44 and May 1945.
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