Peter Englund's new book
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🗓️ 8 December 2011
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:53.9 | excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to BBC History Magazine's weekly podcast. I'm Dave Musgrove, the editor of the magazine, and this is the second of our December 2011 editions. |
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| 1:06.7 | Our website is history extra.com, and you can follow us on Twitter.com slash history extra and Facebook.com slash history extra. |
| 1:11.2 | Coming up this week, we have. |
| 1:13.6 | The book is an experiment, and when I started it, I did, had no idea if it were really going to work. |
| 1:23.1 | That was Peter England, author of a new book on the First World War. |
| 1:28.1 | He believes that the complexity of the world could only be explained by an intelligent designer. |
| 1:34.1 | And that was Professor Michael Hunter on the 17th century scientist Robert Boyle. Our first interview this week is with Peter England, a Swedish historian and author who is also permanent secretary of the organisation |
| 2:03.1 | that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature. Peter's book, The Beauty and the Story, |
| 2:08.0 | has just been translated into English. It tells the history of the First World War through |
| 2:13.1 | the stories of 20 different people who experienced that conflict. |
| 2:18.3 | Our deputy editor Rob Atar caught up with Peter on a recent trip to the UK to find out more. |
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