Peter Frankopan: who rules the world in 2019?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Best-selling author of The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan opens up an exciting world that hardly any of us have visited, but all should take note of this year. The historian flips around the world map to put Britain at the edge. We hear how Kazakhstan is the new hot spot, why two new billionaires are made a month in China, and where all the stuff that goes into our phones and laptops comes from. Plus his thoughts how we can all start exploring and understanding this new world.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Matthew Price. |
| 0:08.3 | This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:11.0 | Every weekday we ask a big question. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, who rules the world in 2019? |
| 0:17.0 | Today, who rules the world in 2019? |
| 0:25.0 | So like yesterday when I spoke to the slumflower about 2019 and what she thinks we should |
| 0:37.8 | be doing to make it a good year. Today we wanted to go big picture on the world in 2019 and look outside the UK with our |
| 0:47.4 | obsessions of immigration and leaving the EU and speak to a man who believes that |
| 0:52.4 | what goes on here on this little island is |
| 0:54.3 | pretty insignificant on the global scale and this morning we got another sign |
| 0:59.6 | literally from outer space of what's going on beyond our borders. So this is the sound of a |
| 1:05.4 | Chinese rocket launching a few weeks ago and today a spacecraft from that rocket |
| 1:10.0 | landed on the far side of the moon. It's never been done before and it's one more sign of how China is changing, fast, it's growing, it's asserting itself as a world player. |
| 1:20.0 | And one man who's literally written the book, actually two of them, on the growth of China and Asia, |
| 1:26.0 | and what it means for us is a guy called Peter Frankopan. |
| 1:30.0 | He's been to all the places I'd love to go that I haven't made it to yet, all those huge fascinating |
| 1:35.0 | landscapes in Central Asia. |
| 1:36.9 | And he's a professor of global history at Oxford University and for my New Year's resolution I'm going |
| 1:42.4 | to learn properly how to DJ. |
| 1:45.0 | DJ? Yeah, why not? |
| 1:47.0 | Midlife crisis. |
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