Official's role is 'untenable' say leading cultural figures including more than 100 BBC journalists and 300 others ...

Figures including Miriam Margolyes, Charles Dance, and Mike Leigh have signed an open letter blasting the BBC for its ...

More than 400 prominent figures from the arts and media have signed an open letter demanding the removal of BBC board member ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far ...

At the beginning of William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire, the award-winning Scottish historian states plainly the thesis of ...

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

Steve Inskeep talks to William Dalrymple about his upcoming piece in The New York Times Magazine entitled: "How is Hamid Karzai Still Standing?" Dalrymple recently wrote the book, Return of a King ...

EXCLUSIVE: Historian William Dalrymple and journalist Anita Anand’s well-received non-fiction book Koh-i-Noor: The History Of The World’s Most Infamous Diamond has been optioned for a TV drama ...

SIMON: William Dalrymple's new book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World." Thank you so much for being with us. DALRYMPLE: Thank you, Scott.

Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far East, enriching the ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far ...