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Who was Basil D’Oliveira and why was South Africa's Apartheid government fearful of him making the England cricket squad?

Who was the first black cricketer to bat for The West Indies?

Why is The West Indies on the back foot in international cricket compared to other teams?

@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are again joined by cricket journalist, Tim Wigmore, to explore the history of India's favourite pastime.

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🏏 How did Britain’s imperial game become so popular in India? 🏏

👶Why were India’s princes the ‘nepo babies’ of cricket?👶

🇵🇰 How does the legacy of Partition continue to affect matches in India and Pakistan today? 🇵🇰

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In today's episode, we look at the historic rivalry between England and Australia:

🔥 Where did The Ashes come from? 🔥
💀 What was the Bodyline Controversy that nearly killed a player? 💀
👑 Who was Don Bradman, 'the greatest sportsperson of all time?' 👑

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Listen now as @DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita grapple with viewing their favourite characters from childhood through the lens of imperial history...

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Two iconic children's cartoons created by illustrators with very sweet origin stories.

But how should we feel about the racism and imperialism within their pages today?

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Was Charlotte Brontë's “madwoman in the attic” a Jamaican heiress? Did Jane Austen's Mansfield Park sideline the slave wealth of its characters? How was her own family tied to the Caribbean plantations?

Listen now as @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social discuss one of the most influential events of Orwell's life...

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Who saved his life when he was shot in the throat? How did internal feuds on the leftist side of the war influence his writing and his paranoia? And what is the wider imperial history of the Spanish Civil War?

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and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Harvard Professor Caroline Elkins to discuss the British occupation of Palestine, and one of the pivotal historical dominoes in the road to where we are today.

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