Dr. Peter Frankopan is a historian at Oxford University, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.
Peter's book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, is an international bestseller, described by William Dalrymple as a 'historical
epic of dazzling range, ambition and achievement' (Observer)
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Producer: Dan Morelle
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