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Episode 4
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William Dalrymple's critically acclaimed history of the East India Company turns to the brutal famine in Bengal in the late eighteenth century. The reader is Alistair McGowan.
William Dalrymple's critically acclaimed new history of the East India Company examines how a small trading company was transformed into a colonial power over the course of almost 300 years. Today, a brutal famine exacts a high price in Bengal in the 1760s and 1770s, . Alistair McGowan reads.
Adapted by William Dalrymple
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
Last on
Fri 15 Nov 201900:30
BBC Radio 4
Broadcasts
- Thu 14 Nov 201909:45BBC Radio 4 FM
- Fri 15 Nov 201900:30BBC Radio 4
