Peter Frankopan's new book looks at changes in the natural world over billions of years | 7.30

In 2015 historian Peter Frankopan helped remake the way we considered history with his groundbreaking book The Silk Roads, which argued that both ancient and modern history were largely determined in the lands between Europe and the Pacific rather than Europe. In a mammoth new book, The Earth Transformed, the professor of global history at Oxford University has plunged into a mass of new scientific data about changes in the natural world over billions of years, to reconsider how they have shaped human events, and what lessons we can learn in 2023 amid pandemic and dire warnings about the impacts of climate change. 7.30's Laura Tingle interviews Peter Frankopan.
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