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More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point.

Encounters with the people of the past in the places of the present. A history podcast about people and the places where they lived, loved, worked and died. Delivered in punchy and illuminating 30-minute episodes, hosted by the bestselling author Kassia St Clair.