Empire: The Story of a World Conquering Podcast |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 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 Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning 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. 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 co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Anita Anand is an award-winning radio and television journalist. She is also the author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary [Bloomsbury]; Kohinoor: The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond [Bloomsbury] and The Patient Assassin [Simon & Schuster], for which she won the Penn Hessell Tiltman Award for History Book of The Year. She co-presents the internationally acclaimed ‘Empire’ podcast alongside William Dalrymple.

Bee Rowlatt is a writer and journalist. Her award-winning travelogue In Search of Mary was a ‘biography of the ye ar’. She co-wrote the bestseller Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad, which was dramatised by the BBC, and is one of Virago’s Fifty Shades of Feminism. Her play about Mary Wollstonecraft recently debuted in London’s West End. She is now writing a novel about a girl who can’t stop stealing.


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