William Dalrymple: A life shaped by history

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

"I'm that lucky guy who found his hobby and was able to turn it into a job."

William Dalrymple is a multi-award winning and bestselling historian. Growing up on the Dalrymple family estate in North Berwick, with an almost Edwardian childhood, William was sent off to Ampleforth College at just eight years old. It was there that his passion for history grew and he spent his free time on archaeological digs and getting lost in history books.

William has gone on to turn that childhood fascination into an incredible career. He has written numerous bestselling books including White Mughals and The Last Mughals. His latest book The Golden Road is out now.

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0:48.5	than I would ever get on my radio program.
0:51.3	And if I wasn't looking forward already to interviewing the historian William
0:55.5	Dalrymple, then the last line of a recent interview he gave would have ensured that I would be.
1:00.6	It is entirely plausible, I read, to picture William Dalrymple as the boy who became the author
1:06.1	he dreamt of being and somehow never grew up.
1:10.3	I don't know whether that is a compliment or a backhanded compliment or both, but I'll take that.
1:15.6	I think it's a compliment.
1:17.9	One of the things that pops up on full disclosure quite a lot, William, is the fact that we only
1:22.7	ever know one childhood.
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