🎧 Singapore with Nicholas Walton
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit
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27m
Dan talks to Nicholas Walton about the role of Sir Stamford Raffles in the emergence of Singapore as one of the world's largest ports, and about the history of the country more generally, from the earliest days of Javanese agriculture to Singapore's involuntary independence.
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