Building Bridges across the Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan and Carrie Humphrey

This week we welcome historian Peter Frankopan and anthropologist Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey to the show. Both work on very different aspects of areas across Asia now described as the Silk Roads; Peter has written a bestselling history of the Silk Roads, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and Carrie has spent several decades as an anthropologist in Mongolia, China and Russia.

Gillian recalls her days of anthropological field work in Tajikistan as the Soviet Union began to break up, and Carrie reveals a new way of looking at the Great Wall of China. All are involved with the Silk Roads Programme at King's, which brings together researchers who work on the past and present of a part of the world which continues to shape global trade and cultures today.

The Silk Roads Programme at King's College Cambridge

Peter Frankopan

Caroline Humphrey

Recorded and Produced by &Friends Content studio (www.andfriends.world)