Empire (BBC)

History Documentary hosted by Jeremy Paxman, published by BBC in 2012 - English narration


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Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known: the British Empire.




2)  Making Ourselves at Home 
He continues his personal account of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things around the world - in particular how they created a very British idea of home. He begins in India, where early traders wore Indian costume and took Indian wives. Their descendants still cherish their mixed heritage. Victorian values put a stop to that as inter racial mixing became taboo. In Singapore he visits a club where British colonials gathered together, in Canada he finds a town whose inhabitants are still fiercely proud of the traditions of their Scottish ancestors, in Kenya he meets the descendants of the first white settlers - men whose presence came to be bitterly resented as pressure for African independence grew. And he traces the story of an Indian family in Leicester whose migrations have been determined by the changing fortunes of the British empire.



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2)  SD Version 
 * Video Codec: XviD ISO MPEG-4
 * Video Bitrate: 1540 kbps
 * Video Resolution: 720 x 400
 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1.800 (16:9)
 * Frames Per Second: 25
 * Audio Codec: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3)
 * Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s AC3 48000 Hz
 * Audio Streams: 2
 * Audio Languages: English
 * RunTime Per Part: 59.Mins
 * Number Of Parts: 5
 * Part Size: 701 MB
 * Encoded by: Harry65
 * Source: DVD



Links
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1)  Further Information 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00p1388


Source: 
http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Empire_(BBC)