Kim Hill Wants To Know
Kim Hill Wants To Know

Kim Hill Wants To Know

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Kim Hill is back asking questions in her inimitable style. She has conversations with guests from around the world about topics that spark her interest and will do the same for you.

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About William Dalrymple's History
DEC 16, 2024
About William Dalrymple's History

Historian, author and podcaster William Dalrymple believes it was India's Golden Road - not China's Silk Road - that transformed the world. He tells Kim Hill about his latest book and his own family history in the Empire.

Scottish historian and journalist William Dalrymple is renown for his books, television series and podcast Empire - mostly about India, a country he’s been in love with since he was a young man.

In his latest, The Golden Road, he argues that it was India and not China which transformed the world between 2050BC and 1300AD.

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71 MIN
What Drives Jon Lee Anderson
NOV 25, 2024
What Drives Jon Lee Anderson

Jon Lee Anderson’s life of adventure began when he was a young boy. The veteran New Yorker journalist tells Kim Hill about covering conflicts, doing jail time and his fascination with rebels which led to discovering Che Guevara's body in Bolivia.

Jon Lee Anderson’s life of adventure began when he was a young boy. The veteran New Yorker journalist has covered some of the most intractable conflicts in some of the most troubled and chaotic parts of the world. 

His several books include a biography of Che Guevara, subtitled A Revolutionary Life and it was Guevara who played a part in Jon’s particular focus on people prepared to die for a cause.

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68 MIN