Empire - Episode 4: Making a Fortune. Jeremy Paxman BBC Documentary, Empire (WITH SUBTITLES)

Jeremy Paxman continues his account of Britain’s empire. He travels from Jamaica, where sugar made plantation owners rich on the backs of slaves, to Calcutta. Empire - Episode 4: Making a Fortune. Jeremy Paxman BBC Documentary, Empire 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.