EP15: Private education with author of Sad Little Men, Richard Beard
What is private education? Who goes in and who comes out? Like Peter, Richard Beard experienced such an education and writes about its impact and how it has shaped modern government in his latest bo...
19 Sep 202136min
EP14: An Atlantic Slave War and competition within Africa with Professor Vincent Brown of Harvard
On this episode of I've Been Thinking Peter is in conversation with Vincent Brown, Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard and author of the exce...
12 Sep 202130min
EP13: The Taliban, their roots and other terrorist organisations operating in Afghanistan
Welcome to the second part of this deep look into Afghanistan. Peter speaks to Professor Sumit Ganguly who provides the history and background of the Taliban's origins, and Professor Amira Jadoon one...
5 Sep 202127min
EP12: How Afghanistan fell and why Pakistan may shape their neighbours future
This is a two part special of I've Been Thinking, digging deeper into the situation in Afghanistan. In this episode Peter is in conversation with Ajmal Ahmady, until very recently the Governor of the...
5 Sep 202132min
EP11: Pacific trade routes of the Americas after the arrival of Columbus with Mark Moyama & Fernando Artaga
The Pacific Ocean trade routes have fascinated many for a long time including economic historians Mark Koyama & Fernando Arteaga. Together with their colleague Desiree Desierto they have written an ex...
29 Aug 202134min
EP10: Afghanistan: The past, present, future and ramifications of what we see happening before us
This episode of I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan is a special one as we look at the developing situation in Afghanistan. Peter has spent a lot of time working on the history of Afghanistan an...
22 Aug 202141min
EP9: Pandemic impact on elections and parallels between the Spanish-Flu & Covid-19 with Leticia Arroyo & Noel Maurer
Leticia Arroyo and Noel Maurer are New York based academics who have written a fascinating work on if and how pandemics shape elections following their paper on the 1918 Spanish Flu. In this episode t...
15 Aug 202142min
EP8: Former Sky News Foreign Correspondent & best selling author Tim Marshall on border tensions, cultural reform & future hopes
Tim Marshall was Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News but after three decades he chose to step away to focus on analysis and writing of what he had witnessed and learn in his caree...
8 Aug 202131min
