Introducing 'I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan'

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Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Hi, Steve Allen listener, We’ve got another brand new podcast we think you’ll enjoy. ‘I’ve Been Thinking’ is a new weekly show hosted by Peter Frankopan. As well as being a best-selling author (Silk Roads), Professor of Global History and Oxford and voted as one of the World’s Top 50 Thinkers, Peter uses this podcast to speak with some incredible guests looking at topics from around the world that help understand and explain the past, present and future. Guests include former Director of the FBI James Comey and Chinese artist & activist Ai Weiwei. This is a taster of what you can expect from the show. If you like what you hear please search for I’ve Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:37.3	I'm Peter Frankapan and this is my new podcast.
0:40.3	I've been thinking.
0:41.3	During my time as a professor, a historian and an author, I'm lucky enough to read some amazing
0:47.3	books and to talk to some incredibly interesting people with captivating minds about fascinating topics.
0:53.3	So in my brand new podcast, I'm going to be looking at some of the themes from around the world
0:57.2	to help us understand and explain the past, the present, and the future.
1:02.3	Hear me in conversation with the likes of former director of the FBI, James Comey.
1:06.0	I was surprised that the premise of the dinner was, did I want to stay as FBI director?
1:10.5	And then when he very early on over his salad,
1:13.3	asked explicitly for a pledge of loyalty
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