{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/683590e6998551779f24f8f3/6851a233002f9da49a8f140d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"William Dalrymple: The Golden Road","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/683590e6998551779f24f8f3/1750180353656-25b08ab7-bd3a-41c3-afc9-8695128e3e24.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>My guest on this week’s <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the historian William Dalrymple, whose bestselling account of ancient India’s cultural and economic influence, <em>The Golden Road</em>, is newly out in paperback. He tells me why the ‘Silk Road’ is a myth, how Arabic numerals are really Indian – and how he responds to being Narendra Modi’s new favourite author.</p>","author_name":"The Spectator"}