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The sounds of people working with guns.
But these are guns of peace, not of war.
They're being cut up, melted down, welded together and reshaped to make artworks in Mozambique.
It's the first time in this series that we can actually let you hear how one of the objects was made.
It's also the first time that we have an object that's a record of conflict,
but which doesn't glorify war or the ruler who waged it.
The object today is known as the Throne of Weapons.
It's a chair or throne constructed out of parts of guns
which were made all over the world and then sold to Africa.
We don't manufacture weapons.
We sometimes don't even have money to buy them.
How do we get these weapons to kill each other?
A History of the World in 100 Objects.
The Throne of Weapons.
Made in Mozambique in 2001.
If one of the defining features of the 19th century was the growth of mass markets and mass consumption,
then the 20th century might be characterized by mass warfare and mass killing.
The two world wars, Stalin's purges, the Holocaust, Hiroshima, Cambodia's killing fields, Rwanda.
If there is any positive side at all to this tale of genocide and devastation,