Empire - Episode 2: Making Ourselves at Home. Jeremy Paxman BBC Documentary, Empire

Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the British Empire. He continues by examining how traders, conquerors and settlers spread the British way of doing things. Empire is a 2012 BBC and Open University co-production, written and presented by Jeremy Paxman, charting the rise of the British Empire from the trading companies of India to the rule over a quarter of the world’s population and its legacy in the modern world. Jeremy Paxman traces the story of the British Empire. He continues by tracing the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero.