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.





4)  Making a Fortune 
Jeremy Paxman continues his personal account of Britain's empire, looking at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt, grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global financial network. He travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of African slaves, to Calcutta, where British traders became the new princes of India. Jeremy then heads to Hong Kong, where British-supplied opium threatened to turn the Chinese into a nation of drug addicts - leading to the brutal opium wars, in which Britain triumphed and took the island of Hong Kong as booty. Unfair trading helped spark the independence movement in India, led by Mahatma Gandhi; in a former cotton spinning town in Lancashire, Jeremy meets two women who remember Gandhi's extraordinary visit in 1931.



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 * 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



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