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Anita Anand

Anita Anand is an award-winning radio and television journalist.  She is the author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary; Kohinoor, The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond - with William Dalrymple; and The Patient Assassin, for which she won the Penn Hessell Tiltman Award for History Book of The Year.    he is a trustee for The Women’s Prize for Fiction & Non-Fiction , a patron of The Museum of Richmond, and a member of the advisory board of the Oxford Centre for Global History. Anand was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of London in 2024.  She presents the internationally acclaimed Empire podcast with Dalrymple which has over 30 million downloads to date.