Jeremy Paxman continues his personal account of Britain's empire, looking at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt, grew into an informal empire based on trade and developed into a global financial network. He travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of African slaves, to Calcutta, where British traders became the new princes of India. Jeremy then heads to Hong Kong, where British-supplied opium threatened to turn the Chinese into a nation of drug addicts - leading to the brutal opium wars, in which Britain triumphed and took the island of Hong Kong as booty. Unfair trading helped spark the independence movement in India, led by Mahatma Gandhi; in a former cotton spinning town in Lancashire, Jeremy meets two women who remember Gandhi's extraordinary visit in 1931.
| Title | Empire - Season 1 Episode 4 : Making a Fortune |
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| Alternative Titles | Empire (2012) |
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| First Air Date | 2012-02-27 |
| Last Air Date | 2012-03-26 |
| Number of Episodes | 5 |
| Number of Seasons | 1 |
| Genres | Documentary, History, |
| Networks | BBC One, |
| Casts | Jeremy Paxman |
| Plot Keywords | , |
Episodes List
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Empire Season 1 :Episode 1 A Taste for Power A Taste for Power
2012-02-27Empire is a major five-part series presented by Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and...
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Empire Season 1 :Episode 2 Making Ourselves at Home Making Ourselves at Home
2012-03-05Empire is a major five-part series presented by Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and...
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Empire Season 1 :Episode 3 Playing The Game Playing The Game
2012-03-12Empire is a major five-part series presented by Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and...
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Empire Season 1 :Episode 4 Making a Fortune Making a Fortune
2012-03-19Empire is a major five-part series presented by Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and...
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Empire Season 1 :Episode 5 Doing Good Doing Good
2012-03-26Empire is a major five-part series presented by Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and...
