Collective memory is storytelling on a massive scale. Every nation, every community, has a master narrative—the ‘official’ story about who they are, who they aren’t, what has happened to them, and why it all matters. If you control the memory, you control the narrative; if you control the narrative, you control the power.

• GUEST:  Dr Richard Latham Lechowick, Research Associate with the Global History Lab at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton