Empire Playing the Game (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV Episode | 58 min | Documentary, History

Empire

Playing the Game (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV Episode | 58 min | Documentary, History

Paxman traces the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero - adventurer, gentleman, amateur, sportsman and decent chap and the British obsession with sport. He travels to East Africa in the following Victorian explorers searching for ...See morePaxman traces the growth of a peculiarly British type of hero - adventurer, gentleman, amateur, sportsman and decent chap and the British obsession with sport. He travels to East Africa in the following Victorian explorers searching for the source of the Nile; to Khartoum in Sudan to tell the story of General Gordon, and to Hong Kong where the British indulged their passion for horse racing by building a spectacular race course and to Jamaica where the greatest imperial game of all cricket became a battleground for racial equality when the West Indies formerly always had a white captain replaced by a black man. Written by Enzedder See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Jeremy Paxman Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Sadiq Al-Mahdi Self (as Imam Sadiq Al Mahdi) Self (as Imam Sadiq Al Mahdi) See fewer	Sudan: History of a Broken Land (2011)
Maurice Foster Self - Jamaican Cricket Team 1964-1978 Self - Jamaican Cricket Team 1964-1978 See fewer	BBC TV Cricket (1963)
Ashley Jackson Self - Collector Self - Collector See fewer	Cunk on Earth (2022)
Michael Palin Self - Co-Writer, Ripping Yarns Self - Co-Writer, Ripping Yarns See fewer	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)