#104 Lost Property (Part 2)

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re trawling through history’s lost property bin to examine a bunch of famous things that went missing. We’ve got a load of Academy Awards, Lawrence of Arabia’s lost manuscript and Queen Victoria’s lost statue.

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1:08.7	Right, on we go then. In the aftermath of the First World War, Colonel T.E. Lawrence was an international celebrity, thanks to his role in the Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire. So he's, you know, our listeners, the majority of our listeners will know him as Lawrence of Arabia. He was also a budding writer, and was already busy at work on a volume titled The Seven Pillars of Wisdom when the War broke out.
1:29.7	So it's a travelogue of his journey to seven cities across the Middle East.
1:33.8	But how does this make you feel, Tom?
1:36.5	Lawrence was unhappy with the manuscript and so burnt it.
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