Books of the year 2022

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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From books delving into hidden histories to eye-opening global stories and epic World War Two blockbusters, 2022 has been an excellent year for history books. Rhiannon Davies is joined by historians Michael Wood, Rana Mitter and Catherine Nixey to discuss some of their top picks. Subscribe to BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed this season and receive a book of your choice worth up to £30* at https://www.buysubscriptions.com/subscribe2022 Listeners from outside the UK can also subscribe *Book promotion only available for UK residents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.2	Someone that has sex.
0:26.2	And remember, it's just between us.
0:32.3	Welcome to the History Extra podcast.
0:35.7	Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.
0:48.2	Many brilliant history books have been published this year.
0:52.7	Titles that let us escape into the past, or help
0:56.1	us make sense of our 21st century surroundings. So in today's episode, we wanted to celebrate
1:02.6	some of those books. BBC History Magazine's books editor, Riannon Davis, was joined by
1:08.5	historians Michael Wood, Rana Mitter and Catherine Nixie to find out which books captured their imaginations in 2022.
1:18.1	So hello and welcome to the Books of the Year 2020. I'm your host, Riannon Davis, books editor for BBC History Magazine,
1:24.7	and I am delighted to be joined today by Catherine Nixie,
1:28.2	Michael Wood and Ranamitter. Would you all like to introduce yourselves?
1:32.0	So I'm Catherine Nixie, and I write for The Economist, and I also write books about the
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