Winning a Radio 1 competition age 15 to fly to LA first piqued Sathnam Sanghera’s taste for travel and journalism. His latest book EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past explores how the British Empire still shapes who we are. As well as the Empire, racism, Enoch Powell, Cambridge, 80s popular culture, the history of Brits Abroad and Boris Johnson needing therapy we chart Sathnam’s own journey from his Sikh community in Wolverhampton to journalist for The Times and more.  

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