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Empire

Season 1 Episode 2: Making Ourselves at Home

Paxman continues his story of Britain's empire by looking at how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of life around the world by creating a very British home. Beginning in India where early traders wore Indian costume...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 A Taste for Power

1. A Taste for Power

Aired: Feb 27, 2012

Paxman asks how a tiny island in the North Atlantic came to rule over a quart...

Episode 3 Playing the Game

3. Playing the Game

Aired: Mar 12, 2012

Paxman traces the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero - adventurer, g...

Episode 4 Making a Fortune

4. Making a Fortune

Aired: Mar 19, 2012

Paxman looks at how the empire began as a pirates' treasure hunt robbing Span...

Episode 5 Doing Good

5. Doing Good

Aired: Mar 26, 2012

Paxman tells the story of how a desire for conquest became a mission to impro...

Info about Empire

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, History