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Author: William Dalrymple
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Author William Dalrymple
Narrator Robert Bathurst
Duration 4h 30m
In Rangoon in November 1862, an anonymous coffin is buried in eerie silence, and the turf carefully replaced to disguise the spot. So ended the life of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the great Mughals. Zafar was a remarkable poet who turned Delhi into a city of great cultural brilliance and learning. But in 1857 his capital became the centre of...
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Author William Dalrymple
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 3h
In the summer of 1986, two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination.
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