Empire: The Search for Truth
William Dalrymple and Anita Anand in conversation with Bee Rowlatt


The Empire podcast started in August, went straight to no.1 and now has more than 1 million downloads every month. Characterised by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand’s easy camaraderie and contrasting personas, the podcast looks at how empires rise, why they fall and how they have shaped the world around us today. In discussion with writer and journalist Bee Rowlatt, Dalrymple and Anand discuss why people everywhere are suddenly so interested in the business of the Empire.


William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prizewinning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prizewinning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prizewinning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has been awarded five honorary doctorates, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently an Honorary Bodleian fellow and Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and codirector of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Anita Anand is an awardwinning radio and television journalist. She is also the author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary; Kohinoor: The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond and The Patient Assassin, for which she won the Penn Hessell Tiltman Award for History Book of The Year. She copresents the internationally acclaimed ‘Empire’ podcast alongside William Dalrymple.

Bee Rowlatt is a writer, and producer of cultural events at the British Library. Her travelogue In Search of Mary won the Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust award and was the Independent’s biography of the year. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad was dramatised by the BBC, and her play about Mary Wollstonecraft debuted in London's West End. Formerly a showgirl and BBC World Service journalist, her first novel OneWoman Crime Wave is coming soon

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