{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/6a714e31e9d2c023de8cbda5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Modern Travel | The Other Grand Tour | 2","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/1785811128937-d1a56c77-d8e1-4b00-a273-beb3504a12cb.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>What happened when the people written out of the Grand Tour wrote their own account of it?</p><p><br></p><p>What did an eighteenth-century Bengali diplomat see in London that made him call the British a conceited race?</p><p><br></p><p>And how did a man from Bihar end up as shampooing surgeon to the King of England?</p><p><br></p><p>Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan follow the travellers the Grand Tour left out — enslaved servants, Black abolitionists, Indian intellectuals — and find them looking back at Europe with a colder eye than Europe ever turned on them.</p><p><br></p><p>Frederick Douglass and Sarah Parker Remond met in Rome in 1868, two free Black Americans taking in the ruins of one slave society while campaigning against a living one. Mirza Abu Talib Khan toured Britain and reported home that its true religion was money. I'tesamuddin filled a notebook with the wonders of Europe and the conceit of its inhabitants. And Sake Dean Mahomed opened a vapour bath in Brighton and gave English the word shampoo. The Grand Tour was never only white men learning Latin — it was the moment the world started looking back.</p><p><br></p><p>Join <strong>Legacy Plus</strong> for bonus episodes, early access, Q&amp;A's, fewer adverts and more.</p><p><strong>legacy.supportingcast.fm</strong></p><p><br></p><p>[0:00] The Grand Tour you think you know — powdered wigs, Roman ruins, enough marble to fill a museum</p><p>[3:01] The servants who weren't servants: enslaved Africans on the road to Italy and France</p><p>[4:29] Frederick Douglass, viral superstar, meets Sarah Parker Remond in Rome</p><p>[8:36] Ira Aldridge plays Shakespeare to the aristocrats who came for the ruins</p><p>[13:40] Bihar to Brighton — and the word that came with him</p><p>[17:54] Europe judged: spiritually hollow, morally compromised, excessively fond of luxury</p><p>[25:24] The Maharajas whose Cartier and Rolls Royce orders kept European luxury solvent</p><p>[36:24] What actually killed the Grand Tour, and whether Magaluf is its heir</p><p><br></p><p>Stay connected with Legacy:</p><p>Instagram: @originallegacypodcast</p><p>TikTok: @legacy_productions</p><p><br></p><p>Explore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas:</p><p>Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com</p>","author_name":"Original Legacy Productions"}