• Peter Frankopan on What We Can Learn From History About Today’s Environmental Crisis

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    In this episode, Andrew talks to the Oxford Professor of Global History and author of The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, about what we can learn from history about today’s environmental crisis.

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    PETER FRANKOPAN is professor of global history at Oxford University. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, and The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World. He lives in Oxford.


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