Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat (Pax Britannica,

1 An Introduction… 03:26

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2 Farewell the Trumpets… 04:39

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3 2. My people… 05:56

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4 3. The origins… 04:15

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5 4. They were uniquely… 05:30

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6 5. There were few… 05:13

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7 6. Still the public… 04:26

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8 Chapter 2: An Explorer in Difficulties 07:20

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9 2. Britain's was not… 07:04

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10 3. The day after… 06:29

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11 4. This engaging… 06:43

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12 5. The British also… 06:39

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13 Chapter 3: Following the Flags 01:17

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14 2. There was hardly… 04:17

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15 3. There was no escaping it… 03:00

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16 4. And if to the public… 02:47

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1 Languages especially… 01:27

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2 5. Behind this… 04:29

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3 For by now… 05:51

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4 6. Yet if there was… 05:08

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5 7. It was too late anyway 07:34

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6 8. Chamberlain never… 00:52

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7 Chapter 4: The Life We Always Lead 03:05

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8 2. The British and the Boers… 05:49

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9 3. On the face of it… 05:17

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10 4. As Buller sailed… 05:28

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11 5. Let us peer… 06:31

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12 6. For a very different battlefield… 05:48

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13 7. Two British failures… 04:12

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14 8. For the saddest… 05:15

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15 9. 'Say, colonel,'… 04:42

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16 10. It was a war of striking… 04:47

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17 11. It was a bitter war… 02:27

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1 For though the propagandists… 03:22

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2 12. The Queen died… 05:17

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3 Chapter 5: The Wearying Titan 01:54

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4 2. The scale of the Empire… 03:10

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5 3. The spectacle… 04:41

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6 4. For the first time… 07:33

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7 5. Even more significantly… 06:44

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8 6. There were also… 04:11

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9 7. These were no more… 03:28

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10 Chapter 6: Two Grandees 02:46

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11 2. To understand… 05:14

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12 At home Curzon… 04:07

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13 This was the romantic view… 04:58

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14 3. Curzon responded… 06:44

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15 4. Out of his time… 02:14

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16 5. Our second grandee… 03:21

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17 6. But Milner was… 05:23

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18 If reason led Milner to war… 04:05

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1 7. They were not contended… 03:03

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2 8. Yet it would be wrong… 03:17

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3 9. Two late grandees… 02:11

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4 Chapter 7: A Late Aggression 01:24

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5 2. For generations… 07:08

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6 3. He chose as his… 05:16

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7 4. The first part of the plan… 04:51

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8 5. Tibet had been invaded… 02:45

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9 6. In fact it progressed slowly… 02:39

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10 7. The barricade was nothing… 05:30

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11 8. To Lord Curzon… 03:13

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12 9. 'I question,'… 07:51

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13 10. Younghusband had not… 06:11

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14 Chapter 8: On Power 04:31

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15 2. Far in the east… 02:56

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16 3. The great men of Hong Kong… 03:32

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17 4. There was a caravanserai feeling… 03:17

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18 5. Far away, and even more explicit… 04:31

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19 6. It all looked down to the Fleet… 03:03

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20 7. Such, many times multiplied… 01:41

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1 At the same time… 01:04

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2 8. They were just in time… 00:59

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3 Chapter 9: The First War 04:33

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4 2. The Bugles of England… 05:52

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5 3. The Turkish possession… 05:42

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6 4. The British field commander… 05:22

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7 5. Yet before another six months… 06:50

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8 The siege itself… 06:08

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9 6. London took over… 04:30

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10 7. They were devious… 06:21

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11 It had been agreed… 06:35

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12 8. But of the three… 03:03

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13 9. The Navy itself… 04:05

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14 When the Turkish gunners… 04:36

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15 10. Fisher resigned… 04:36

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16 It was before he embarked… 03:57

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17 11. It was to be… 05:03

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1 But it was Magersfontein again… 03:42

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2 12. The Gallipoli campaign… 04:06

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3 13. In hideous attack… 06:08

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4 14. General Hamilton… 03:46

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5 The British public… 04:40

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6 15. Many imperial instincts… 07:44

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7 Part 2: The Purpose Falters 1918–1939 06:44

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8 2. The British Empire had more… 03:58

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9 3. But it was only a spasm… 05:44

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10 4. The peace treaty was signed… 05:05

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11 5. In September 1922… 04:56

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12 6. Though the Empire… 04:42

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13 Chapter 11: A First and a Last Blow 05:59

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14 2. She was a collier… 04:16

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15 3. There was nothing haphazard to it… 06:31

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1 Across the water… 03:10

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2 4. This was the inflammatory… 04:00

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3 5. In the south… 05:27

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4 6. Two remarkable… 06:21

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5 The setting was lovely… 04:15

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6 7. Few of them expected… 06:01

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7 8. The significance of the Easter Rising… 04:51

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8 9. Irish men and Irish women… 07:30

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9 10. During the fighting… 05:23

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10 11. The Ulster Volunteer Force… 03:01

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11 Chapter 12: The Anglo-Arabs 01:08

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12 2. For centuries… 04:01

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13 3. Their chosen vessels… 04:23

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14 In fact they did not… 04:08

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15 4. For it was to prove… 06:48

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16 5. When Allenby resumed… 04:44

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17 6. Among those most deeply affected… 03:53

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1 None of the new territories… 01:08

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2 7. This was a little forlorn… 04:19

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3 8. Among and around… 04:51

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4 9. For a couple of decades… 03:41

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5 10. We will take a journey… 04:21

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6 By the evening… 04:53

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7 11. They are sad scenes… 06:16

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8 Chapter 13: A Muddled Progress 06:57

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9 2. This was the tragedy of Amritsar… 07:07

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10 3. We last saw Gandhi… 04:07

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11 He was an Anglophile… 04:05

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12 4. Gandhi recognised… 07:37

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13 5. The course of events… 03:21

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14 6. It was not enough for Gandhi… 04:44

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15 Dandi was the simplest possible place… 04:13

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16 7. Again he was not there long… 06:00

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1 The agreement they reached… 02:30

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2 8. Later in the year… 02:34

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3 9. The longer the British stalled… 04:30

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4 On one level of thought… 04:21

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5 Chapter 14: Sweet, Just, Boyish Masters 01:36

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6 2. The most lavish exercise… 07:19

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7 3. It was difficult to remember… 07:32

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8 4. In the field… 04:25

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9 5. India was lost anyway… 04:44

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10 Furse had got a third at Oxford… 03:41

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11 6. The imperialists were undismayed… 04:49

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12 7. They never gave up… 05:45

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13 8. Still the Empire proceeded… 04:13

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14 Perhaps the last true expression… 03:50

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15 Chapter 15: Britishness 01:51

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16 2. To most Britons at home… 06:50

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17 3. By now the greatest cities… 07:30

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1 More insidious still… 02:01

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2 4. Britishness had mutated… 04:11

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3 Like most gold-rush towns… 05:21

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4 5. So the Dominions diverged… 06:19

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5 6. No wonder King George V… 05:03

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6 7. New realities… 05:08

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7 8. It soon began to happen… 01:35

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8 Chapter 16: On Technique 05:00

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9 It was Lord Thompson… 06:16

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10 2. The R101 had hit a low hill… 04:24

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11 This then was the truth… 04:10

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12 3. By and large… 05:42

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13 4. The greatest bridge… 05:07

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14 5. Dams were another… 03:31

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15 The Aswan Dam… 04:52

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16 6. These were traditional concerns… 06:28

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17 7. As to the air… 03:33

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1 All this was a far cry… 07:15

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2 8. It did not come naturally… 03:40

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3 Chapter 17: Art Forms 02:04

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4 2. Between the wars… 04:11

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5 3. There was an imperial folklore… 04:38

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6 British film-makers… 03:43

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7 4. Some of the Imperial settlements… 05:30

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8 Bombay was a picture… 05:13

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9 5. The institutional art… 05:10

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10 The setting was solemn… 05:51

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11 It was bigger than Versailles… 07:07

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12 6. But epic, never quite… 00:49

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13 Chapter 18: Stylists 01:13

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14 2. In Kenya was Lord Delamere… 07:25

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15 3. They were a small community… 04:53

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16 4. In London was Frederick John Dealtry Lugard… 05:34

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17 It was as a kind of prefect… 04:07

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1 5. In Cyprus there was Ronald Storrs… 06:11

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2 It was not that the British were unpopular… 04:59

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3 6. In South Africa was Jan Christian Smuts… 07:34

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4 7. There were others, of course… 03:19

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5 Chapter 19: Memsahibs and Others 06:08

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6 2. Yet out of the generalisations… 05:12

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7 3. Several great women travellers… 06:07

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8 4. And most remarkable of all was Gertrude Bell… 05:31

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9 Chapter 20: Adventurers 04:55

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10 2. Some Englishmen still went to be pioneers… 07:32

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11 3. This was an adventure of an organic kind… 05:50

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12 At another extreme… 04:19

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13 For self-doubt… 05:06

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14 4. The most emblematic adventure… 05:37

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1 There they sprawl now… 04:23

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2 5. So long as the Raj lasted in India… 04:44

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3 Part 3: Farewell the Trumpets 1939–1965 02:42

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4 2. This time it was unmistakeably an imperial war… 05:49

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5 But the British… 04:59

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Title: But the British…
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6 3. Without her equivocal allies… 05:08

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7 4. It was in this crowded… 03:59

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8 Here was a return to form… 04:46

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9 5. The Middle East never did fall… 05:14

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10 Yet the Maltese… 04:37

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11 6. Most thrilling of all… 05:28

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12 7. No such inspiriting epic… 05:27

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13 The Australians and New Zealanders… 06:31

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14 8. It was not all dishonour… 03:36

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15 9. The next edition… 07:46

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16 10. One by one, as the war progressed… 03:36

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1 The full meaning of the last war… 03:30

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2 Chapter 22: The Heirs Assemble 01:56

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3 2. The Americans viewed… 05:09

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4 In the Far East… 05:32

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5 3. A more baleful view of the Empire… 07:21

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6 4. Anyway, the groundswell of discontent… 06:42

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7 5. The blindest observers… 04:22

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8 Chapter 23: 1947 01:53

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Title: Chapter 23: 1947
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9 2. Since the constitution of 1935… 05:05

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10 3. Many of the British… 07:47

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11 4. The knot was worse than the Gordian… 05:06

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Title: 4. The knot was worse than the Gordian…
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12 5. Presently he was sacked… 05:46

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Title: 5. Presently he was sacked…
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13 Mountbatten's relations with the three leaders… 06:04

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14 6. 'Plan Balkan'… 07:36

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Title: 6. 'Plan Balkan'…
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15 7. 'The wheels of fate'… 03:32

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1 Every week… 03:23

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Title: Every week…
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2 Chapter 24: The Last Rally 06:16

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Title: Chapter 24: The Last Rally
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3 2. They rationalised the Commonwealth… 05:50

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4 The Indians had decided… 03:36

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Title: The Indians had decided…
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5 3. But we must narrow our focus… 06:44

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Title: 3. But we must narrow our focus…
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6 Money was poured into the estate… 06:48

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Title: Money was poured into the estate…
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7 4. It never happened of course… 06:52

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Title: 4. It never happened of course…
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8 Chapter 25: The Last Retreat 01:43

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Title: Chapter 25: The Last Retreat
Duration: 01:43

9 2. It was in Palestine… 04:45

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Title: 2. It was in Palestine…
Duration: 04:45

10 But by 1947… 03:53

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Title: But by 1947…
Duration: 03:53

11 3. Palestine was a declaration… 07:17

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Title: 3. Palestine was a declaration…
Duration: 07:17

12 4. Far more often though… 02:54

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Title: 4. Far more often though…
Duration: 02:54

13 5. One by one they went… 06:26

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Title: 5. One by one they went…
Duration: 06:26

14 6. Sometimes sceptically… 06:53

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Title: 6. Sometimes sceptically…
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15 But just or no… 05:11

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Title: But just or no…
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1 Port Said had never been beautiful… 03:43

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Title: Port Said had never been beautiful…
Duration: 03:43

2 Chapter 26: On the Beach 03:01

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Title: Chapter 26: On the Beach
Duration: 03:01

3 2. Let us end the story gently… 02:00

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Title: 2. Let us end the story gently…
Duration: 02:00

4 3. Muscat was one such place… 04:27

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Title: 3. Muscat was one such place…
Duration: 04:27

5 It was a lovely house… 03:48

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Title: It was a lovely house…
Duration: 03:48

6 4. Mauritius was another relic… 07:48

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Title: 4. Mauritius was another relic…
Duration: 07:48

7 5. Far, far away… 05:02

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Title: 5. Far, far away…
Duration: 05:02

8 The climate was awful… 04:41

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Title: The climate was awful…
Duration: 04:41

9 6. Across the old Empire… 03:12

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Title: 6. Across the old Empire…
Duration: 03:12

10 7. But the passion was spent… 00:47

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Title: 7. But the passion was spent…
Duration: 00:47

11 Chapter 27: Younghusband had not… 05:40

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Title: Chapter 27: Younghusband had not…
Duration: 05:40

12 2. Of all the charges of Empire… 04:11

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Title: 2. Of all the charges of Empire…
Duration: 04:11

13 Soon the old colonial empire… 04:32

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Title: Soon the old colonial empire…
Duration: 04:32

14 3. Churchill died, and it died with him… 07:34

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Title: 3. Churchill died, and it died with him…
Duration: 07:34

15 4. But most of them… 05:28

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Title: 4. But most of them…
Duration: 05:28

16 5. The end of it was not surprising… 03:19

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Title: 5. The end of it was not surprising…
Duration: 03:19

17 Envoi 05:17

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Title: Envoi
Duration: 05:17

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