Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it, who better to examine the future by looking at the past than Peter Frankopan. Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, published by Bloomsbury in 2015, was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the top 10 for nine months after publication. His latest book, The Earth Transformed was named History Book of the Year by The Times. 

Peter Frankopan with Colm O'Regan