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🎧 Britain and the Birth of the Modern World with Ben Wilson

20th Century • 20m

Ben Wilson is a Historian. He is author of Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy (2013) and Heyday (2016).;Episode music;Mike Skinner - You Better Be;Laura Mvula - Green Garden Presented by Dan Snow @thehistoryguy;Produced by Dan Morelle @danmorelle

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