Spice trade spurred shipping, colonialism, capitalism; created today’s Mumbai and New York: Nicholas Nugent
Journalists have an unending stream of stories to tell. Nicholas Nugent, who switched off his audio suite in the BBC as a broadcast journalist in 1999, continues to enthral listeners (in small conversations) and readers (of his seven books and the once-in-a-while newspaper column). Not with the “when-I-was-there” genre, however. In his elegant country house,…