William Drimple

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115 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 30 Apr

William Drimple’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Then there's a whole new story.

We have to read the book or listen to the full four-part podcast that we did at the beginning.

Quickly tell the story.

I love the story about your first sight of it.

Which one?

And then having arguments with each other.

So what they did eventually was they set up a conveyor belt next to the glass case.

The idea was that they were only allowed to see it for a second and they'd be sort of sped past it.

And you only have to actually look online.

I posted about an hour ago the New York Times article which quotes both of us about the Koh-i-Noor.

And already there are about 40 different people fighting over who owns it.

There's some from Orissa, some from the Punjab, but not just Indians.

Bangladeshis, Pakistanis who put in the first legal claim after independence.

Afghans, the Taliban and Iran.

And that's just for starters.

So it's going to be no easy thing.

It's rather like Solomon's baby or something, you know, the lady's baby and Solomon saying he's going to divide the child.

It's interesting in two ways.

This small diamond now, it used to be the size of a hen's egg.

It's now, you know, not even that.

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