375. Algerian Revolution: The French Invasion (Ep 1)
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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnond. And me, William Drimple. This is the most fascinating series, and I have to say I knew very little about it until three weeks ago when I uh got a huge pile of Algerian books and I've been sitting in my garden reading through them. There are so many different amazing stories contained in this series. The story of the Barbary Corsairs, all these white Europeans who make up a third of the population of Algiers as slaves The French conquest, the settling of one million French people. in Algeria. It's one of the most sort of uh extraordinary stories of colonization, then an equally extraordinary story of resistance. Many of you, I'm sure, will have seen the Battle of Algiers, the great movie that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. You then get this extraordinary period when Algiers becomes the sort of chic capital Uh of all the revolutionaries the nineteen sixties, the Black Panthers turn up.
Tim Leary, who's escaped from jail in California, having developed LSD, turns up. Nina Simone turns up. Uh and then And really important for today. There's the whole story of how the Piedmont resettled in France,
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