A conversation between Roman Mars and Neil MacGregor reflects on the groundbreaking 2010 BBC series A History of the World in 100 Objects, which used everyday artifacts to tell a global, interconnected human story, and offers guidance for Mars’s new U.S.-focused adaptation ahead of the
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