This Sceptred Isle, Empire

This Sceptred Isle was created as a series of short 12-14 minute Radio programmes by the BBC for transmission daily on Radio 4 from 1995 about the history of the lands and peoples of the British Isles. .

The series was very successful and the BBC extended the programme to cover the twentieth century.

In 2001 another shorter series entitled This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties was produced.

In 2005 and 2006 This Sceptred Isle: Empire a 90-part history of the British Empire was broadcast on Radio 4.
Each part was approximately 15 minutes long.

The narrator - Juliet Stevenson

Cast of readers of various historical documents.
Jack Davenport
Joss Ackland
Christopher Eccleston
Anna Massey




These were not my caps but downloaded from another torrent site.
There were a few issues with these files which are now fixed.

Most still had the announcer at the start: "Next on radio 4", yadda, yadda: Now removed.
All were over modulated IMHO and I've lowered the levels.
A few had the intro theme partly missing. I've edited in the full intro.
A few had the ending theme missing. I've edited in the full ending.



This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 01 of 90 - No Grand Plan
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 02 of 90 - Ireland, The First Colony
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 03 of 90 - Elizabeth I And Ireland
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 04 of 90 - Looking For China
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 05 of 90 - Elizabeth, Trade, And Francis Drake
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 06 of 90 - John Hawkins And Humphrey Gilbert
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 07 of 90 - Martin Frobisher And Fool's Gold
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 08 of 90 - Walter Raleigh And Virginia
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 09 of 90 - Disaster At Roanoke
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 10 of 90 - El Dorado And The Real Treasures
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 11 of 90 - Elizabeth And A New Economy
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 12 of 90 - The Spice Trade
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 13 of 90 - Towards The East Indies
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 14 of 90 - After The Armada And James Lancaster
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 15 of 90 - 1600 - The East India Company
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 16 of 90 - The England Of James I And VI
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 17 of 90 - 1606 - The Virginia Company
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 18 of 90 - Jamestown, Virginia
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 19 of 90 - Bermuda And Shipwreck
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 20 of 90 - Slavery - Black And White
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 21 of 90 - The Pilgrim Fathers And The Massachusetts Bay Company
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 22 of 90 - The West Indies And Sugar
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 23 of 90 - Barbados And Civil War In England
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 24 of 90 - Trade With India
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 25 of 90 - Clive Of India
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 26 of 90 - The Scottish Empire
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 27 of 90 - Gibraltar
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 28 of 90 - Canada - Wolfe And Montcalm
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 29 of 90 - America - The Way To Independence
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 30 of 90 - 1783, The Empire Loses America
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 31 of 90 - After The Revolution - The Boost To Canada
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 32 of 90 - Canada
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 33 of 90 - Australia - Captain Cook
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 34 of 90 - Australia - Transportation
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 35 of 90 - Australia - Sheep And Gold
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 36 of 90 - The Innocents
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 37 of 90 - Imperialism And Edward Wakefield
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 38 of 90 - New Zealand
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 39 of 90 - Shutting The Slave Market
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 40 of 90 - The Last Shackle Of Empire
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 41 of 90 - Warren Hastings
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 42 of 90 - The Trial Of Warren Hastings
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 43 of 90 - Nelson And Empire
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 44 of 90 - Raffles
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 45 of 90 - Ceylon
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 46 of 90 - Mungo Park
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 47 of 90 - The First Opium War
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 48 of 90 - The First Sikh War
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 49 of 90 - The Origins Of The Indian Mutiny
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 50 of 90 - The Sepoy Rebellion (I)
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 51 of 90 - The Sepoy Rebellion (II)
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 52 of 90 - End Of Mutiny
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 53 of 90 - The Viceroys
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 54 of 90 - Abyssinia
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 55 of 90 - West Africa - Jaw-Jaw
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 56 of 90 - The Missionaries
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 57 of 90 - South Africa - The British Arrive
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 58 of 90 - South Africa - Boers And Brits
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 59 of 90 - Zulu War
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 60 of 90 - Empress
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 61 of 90 - From Ireland To Ireland
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 62 of 90 - The Irish Question
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 63 of 90 - Egypt, Sudan, And The Suez Canal
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 64 of 90 - The Death Of General Gordon
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 65 of 90 - Bismarck's Carve-Up
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 66 of 90 - The Munshi
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 67 of 90 - Diamond Jubilee
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 68 of 90 - Omdurman And Churchill
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 69 of 90 - Boers, Outlanders, And The Jameson Raid
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 70 of 90 - Gold And The Second Boer War
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 71 of 90 - The End Of The Second Boer War
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 72 of 90 - Death Of The Queen Empress
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 73 of 90 - The Most Hated Nation Of The World
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 74 of 90 - Tibet
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 75 of 90 - Lord Curzon - Duty And The Durbar
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 76 of 90 - Lord Curzon - Goodbye To All That
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 77 of 90 - A Greater Britain
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 78 of 90 - Imperial Preferences
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 79 of 90 - Defending The Empire
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 80 of 90 - The Last Imperial Reign
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 81 of 90 - Irish Home Rule And The Road To War
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 82 of 90 - The Empire And The First World War
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 83 of 90 - The Amritsar Massacre
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 84 of 90 - Defending The Empire
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 85 of 90 - High Street Durbars
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 86 of 90 - India - Dominion Or Not Dominion
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 87 of 90 - Gandhi Or Jinnah
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 88 of 90 - The Empire And The Second World War
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 89 of 90 - India - Independence
This Sceptred Isle - Empire - 90 of 90 - What Happened Next