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Every week Your Next Podcast picks a great first episode of a show that you should listen to. Follow along and get something new in your podcast app every Thursday.

This week it's What's Your Map?

Historian Jerry Brotton meets people who work with and love maps to dissect one map they keep going back to. Today's guest is Ed Parsons, one of the geographers behind perhaps the best known map of the 21st century: Google Maps.

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