Podcast Corner: Queen's demise puts history of empire back on the agenda
William Dalrymple hosts the Empire podcast with Anita Anand.
Amid the wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and the outpouring of emotion in the miles-long queue in London of people waiting to pay their respects, there has been an undercurrent of a royal reckoning, examining the realities of what’s now left of Empire.
Two years ago in this column, we looked at the six-part Audible-exclusive series We Need to Talk About the British Empire. “There are plenty of other stories left to tell about the British Empire,” we wrote. Alas no more episodes materialised considering such, but in August, another podcast, simply titled Empire, began, hosted by historian William Dalrymple and journalist Anita Anand.
