173. Olivier Levasseur - Hidden Pirate Treasure
Who Did What Now
Katie Charlwood
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Olivier Levasseur showed up at the tail end of the Golden Age of Piracy, plundering his way through both sides of the Atlantic, and claiming a booty second to that of Henry Avery himself, loot so astounding that treasure hunters have been trying to solve the mysterious cryptogram and find the hidden treasure of La Buse...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast |
| 0:12.4 | That's Not Your History Class, with me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and |
| 0:18.6 | Reader of Books. So, the cat is finally out the bag, I'm allowed to talk about it now. |
| 0:24.6 | I am part of a companion piece for a docudrama that's going to be out on the BBC later this month, December 2025. |
| 0:33.6 | So there is a docudrama which is a minute by minute like play of the sinking of the Titanic |
| 0:39.4 | and the people therein. |
| 0:41.8 | And it is called Titanic Sinks Tonight. |
| 0:44.3 | It's going to be on BBC 2, 9pm, GMT and it's the 28th, 29, 30th and 31st of December. |
| 0:52.2 | And when that's released, the companion piece, which is going to be on the |
| 0:56.6 | I player, with myself and Gareth Russell, who we weren't intentionally wicked coded. I need |
| 1:04.2 | you to know that. It wasn't planned. But there are certain roles when you're on TV and it's like, |
| 1:09.7 | don't wear anything with a logo |
| 1:11.1 | or that shows your boobs and I'm like all right no problem so we worked with what we had |
| 1:15.7 | so our companion face life after disaster it is oh wrongsill diamond coat that's exactly what |
| 1:22.2 | it says in the tin it's what happened after the Titanic disaster you, people like Charles Lightall or Violet |
| 1:30.3 | Jessup, Lady Duff Gordon, so on and so forth. And I am so grateful to have been a part of that. |
| 1:38.0 | And Garth is such a delight. Like, I would work with him anytime, anywhere, like, just he's fabulous, he's amazing, 10 out of 10. |
| 1:47.2 | And now we've talked about the good stuff this month. |
| 1:49.5 | Let's switch lanes. |
| 1:52.1 | Yeah, so I've been getting a lot of crap this month. |
| 1:56.4 | My bosom seems to be a point of contention for quite a lot of women. |
| 2:00.3 | Like, they are very angry that I'm not intentionally hiding my cleavage all the time, |
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