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Welcome to intelligence squared today

We're hearing from Peter Frank Pan professor of global history at Oxford University and author of two seminal books

Which you may know the silk roads and its follow-up the new silk roads?

Well, he joined historian writers Simon C. Bagmont of puree at the Clived in literary festival recently to reflect on the global dynamics that define our era and the shifts

That perhaps suggest the beginnings of a new one. Here's Simon C. Bagmont of puree with more

Peter you've paid a big role with your silk roads books two books of really kind of

expanding history

You know when we were growing up history was really just about sort of the tutors and

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