Airdate: Empire With Michael Portillo

Michael Portillo shows no sign of letting up with a new 4 part series Empire With Michael Portillo.

This tells the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe built the biggest empire the world has ever seen.

Episode One:
Michael visits India, the Jewel in the Crown of Empire. Here he uncovers how the British East India Company built an Empire becoming the world’s first multinational corporation, using a private army to subdue this massive country. But how did such a small number of colonists rule over such a vast, diverse area?

Thursday, 19 November at 8.30pm on SBS.