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This Sceptred Isle: Empire, Volume 1: 1155-1783

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This new series explains how Britain, through trading in such commodities as sugar, spice - and slaves - built the biggest empire the world had ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was under British rule; so whatever the day, whatever the hour, the sun never set on the Empire.

Christopher Lee begins Volume 1 with the colonisation of Ireland by Henry II in 1155. Following the growth of Elizabethan exploration with John Cabot, Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, outposts in North America and the West Indies gradually became established and successful, while the East India Company was gaining an even firmer foothold in India. Juliet Stevenson, as narrator, takes us through triumphs and disasters - to the British defeat at Yorktown in 1783 and the independence of the United States of America.

Using a range of contemporary documents read by Rob Brydon, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap, Anna Massey and Robert Powell, this is an informative, engaging and fascinating insight into the rise - and eventual fall - of the British Empire.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 - 24 September 2005 to 16 June 2006.

6CDs - 7hours and 30 minutes.

Language: English

Pages: 8

Format: Audio CD

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks

Release: November 07, 2005

ISBN: 0563527471

ISBN 13: 9780563527473

This Sceptred Isle: Empire, Volume 1: 1155-1783

3.6/5 ( ratings)

This new series explains how Britain, through trading in such commodities as sugar, spice - and slaves - built the biggest empire the world had ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was under British rule; so whatever the day, whatever the hour, the sun never set on the Empire.

Christopher Lee begins Volume 1 with the colonisation of Ireland by Henry II in 1155. Following the growth of Elizabethan exploration with John Cabot, Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, outposts in North America and the West Indies gradually became established and successful, while the East India Company was gaining an even firmer foothold in India. Juliet Stevenson, as narrator, takes us through triumphs and disasters - to the British defeat at Yorktown in 1783 and the independence of the United States of America.

Using a range of contemporary documents read by Rob Brydon, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap, Anna Massey and Robert Powell, this is an informative, engaging and fascinating insight into the rise - and eventual fall - of the British Empire.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 - 24 September 2005 to 16 June 2006.

6CDs - 7hours and 30 minutes.

Language: English

Pages: 8

Format: Audio CD

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks

Release: November 07, 2005

ISBN: 0563527471

ISBN 13: 9780563527473

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