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Today's Lovejoy Hour will get you thinking.

Today's Lovejoy Hour.

I'm curious about which nations will dominate and control the world in the future.

Big subject, but I have someone who might have the answers.

Well, he does quite a lot on it.

His name is Peter Francapan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University.

He has written the book, The New Silk Roads.

I think it was first written in 2018, updated in 2019.

And I imagine I have to update it again after the pandemic.

Actually, probably with this book, you might have to update it again after the pandemic. Actually, probably with this book,

you might have to update it constantly once a month, once a week. So it's the new Silk

Roads and the present and future of the world. Let's meet him. Here's Peter.

Okay. future of the world. Let's meet him. Here's Peter. Hello, Peter. How are you? Yeah, very, very good.

I've got the sun shining outside for a rare occasion, so I'm in very good mood. Good, good stuff.

So I think the first thing we should do is find out a bit about you, what you do on a day-to-day basis.

Obviously, you write books, but apart from that.

Okay, so I'm a professor of history.

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