Empire: World History · 2025-12-30 · 45 min · 8,316 words

320. Photos That Shook The World: Exposing Leopold in The Congo

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Hello Empire Podcast listeners, Anita here. Look, this episode is going to be one perhaps if you're of a delicate disposition or you've got small children or even slightly bigger children who don't like gory story, you may not want to listen to it with them. Anyway, just a friendly warning, on with the show. Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnon. And me, William DeRimple.

And we have got the most Anita-ish story ever in this in this episode. Yes, and I don't apologize for a second about that. It really is, actually. This one um tickled every nerve ending in my body and not always in a good way, can I tell you, because in this third of our series on on photographers who changed the world, we are looking at a woman.

Shock horror, that's why I'm so excited. Well, you almost certainly have never heard of her, but this is a woman who took on a European king and she won. And her name was Alice Seely Harris. And I bet you've never heard of her, have you, Willie? I've never heard of her, no.

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