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Welcome to the History Extra Podcast, Fascinating Historical Conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine.

From Asteroids, Bacteria and Comets to growing fears about artificial intelligence and climate change, Human history has long been stalked by a terror of the end of

days. But what can these fears reveal to us about the past and can that past help

us to prepare for an uncertain future?

Dory and Linsky, author of a new book,

Everything Must Go, the stories we tell about the end of the world,

spoke to Matt Elton about the long history of

apocalyptic thought.

Dorian, thank you so much for being with me today to talk about your book

about the various ways in which the world might end and how that's been

discussed and thought about throughout history. In talking about doing this

interview with the rest of the team I ask people to come up with some recent works of

fiction that have described or detailed the end of the world

and there's so many of them. Is this fascination with the way the world might end a current day

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