289. Medieval India’s Game of Thrones: The Cholas (Part 1)

To Empire with me, Anita Arnim. And me, William Darimple. And we hope you enjoyed this series on Sewers with Alex on Tinselman, which I think is our most popular ever series. The uh the first episode. Blockbuster. The blockbuster. Absolutely. I just loved it. We had so many comments on Twitter, particularly Anita's hot crush. For Gabul Abdul Nassa, uh the pin up. What I found actually, rather than Nassa being very good looking, undisputably very good looking, and we know it's undisputable because it got right up Anthony Eden's nose. And you know, what I loved was the psychodra of the whole situation. So I mean those of you who haven't gone to listen, go back and listen. Eden is completely convulsed with the idea that his younger, much younger, much prettier wife may be falling under the thrall of a of a dashing Nasser. And I I just I love that with Alex. You know, you get the sort of the the big characters of history, but yeah, they're They're humans, aren't they? At the end of the day, flesh and blood with all of the insecurities that we all carry. That's an extraordinary story. Anyway, as you may be aware, because we've been putting it up online, we will soon be starting another Middle Eastern series, and this is on the history of Gaza, which I don't think

Anyone has done. I've been looking online for, you know. Any broadcaster in the world has actually done this, which is bizarre considering it's been in the headlines of every single newspaper every day for the last two years. Yeah. Starting all the way back with the Egyptian pharaoh Tutmosis the Third. through the crusades, through the British mandate and the Nakba, up to the rise of Hamas. Of course. I mean one of the reasons perhaps that nobody has done this

Is that it is emotional. Tricky. a a difficult thing to discuss, but we think everyone should perhaps have an insight into the history behind the headlines. It's a huge and obviously very controversial and emotional and exciting thing to do, but before we do that, we're gonna give you a little palate cleanser. a little sobe in between your two Middle Eastern courses. Uh, and we are going to go and take you back just for

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