David Olusoga in conversation with Yasmin Khan

In conversation with historian Yasmin Khan, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe, especially India. Throughout, they expose the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.  
 
Olusoga has been a prominent commentator on the Black Lives Matter movement and will also make reference to recent events in America and the UK following the death of George Floyd, the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston and the wider questions of what to do with the legacy of colonialism.