4/4: His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine by S. C. Gwynne (Author)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/His-Majestys-Airship-Largest-Machine/dp/1982168277
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian princess at its heart.
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness back to a second. |
| 0:13.0 | The new. I'm going to come back to a Sam Gwyn, his exciting new book, though you understand this is |
| 0:26.6 | His Majesty's Airship, the life and tragic death of the world's largest flying machine. |
| 0:31.4 | R-101 will go down in France. However, there are decisions |
| 0:35.1 | made here that have defied analysis all these years since except Sam has an |
| 0:41.5 | analysis that makes sense and it's as up to date as anything that existed |
| 0:46.2 | in 1930 when they mourned the crash. |
| 0:51.3 | Moments the day before the launch on October 4th, our hero, Lord Carrington, |
| 1:00.0 | Lord Thompson Carrington, Visits Ramsey McDonald's, |
| 1:04.0 | and Ramsey McDonald asks him not to go. |
| 1:06.2 | Don't go now. |
| 1:07.1 | You don't, you don't need to rush this. |
| 1:09.7 | And he tells Ramsey McDonald's, |
| 1:12.0 | our fates are written in the heavens. |
| 1:15.0 | It's very poetic, Sam. |
| 1:16.9 | It's very tragic. |
| 1:18.7 | Did he write Marta? |
| 1:19.9 | Do we know? Well, he did. |
| 1:24.4 | He wrote a note to be delivered before he left, to be delivered at Christmas time and but which was kind of how the book ends because |
| 1:39.6 | he's the three months dead at the moment that it gets delivered but he didn't writer of |
| 1:45.0 | that that line our fates are written in heaven that's only for Ramsey |
| 1:48.8 | McDonald's that yes yes yes I mean he was I mean he believed he was stepping on this just fantastic airship that was going to take him to Indian back and that the world was going to be great and he was going to be on top of it and he was going to be vice-ray of Indiana and he would still have his girlfriend |
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