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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. You're listening to the History Extra podcast brought to you by the team behind BBC

History magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Matt Elton. Today's podcast guest is the archaeologist and TV presenter Neil Oliver.

Neil joined Ellie Corthorne to discuss his latest book, Wisdom of the ancients, life lessons from the distant past, which looks to our ancient ancestors for inspiration on how to live

better lives today. In the introduction to the book, which I'm assuming was written last year,

but actually feels more timely now than ever with everything that's happened over the last six

months, you speak about being in search of reassurance and a source of optimism. Why do you think that our ancient

ancestors are the place to turn for that? I think I'm an archaeologist by training, I suppose,

and I would call myself an amateur historian, but I read widely of history.

I think partly because I'm not a specialist, you know, so I'm not limited to one period.

I read across everything, you know, thousands of years' worth of history.

And I think if you do that, you quite quickly come to the realization that what's happening now has happened before in cycles.

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