59. Francis Barber: Abolition, the Navy, and the Enlightenment

Empire: World History

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

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Francis Barber is established in Dr Johnson's household. He is his servant, but he is more than that. Their relationship is more akin to father-son, than master-servant. So how did this impact Dr Johnson? And will things remain this way? Listen as William and Anita are once again joined by Peter Moore to discuss the second part of Francis Barber's life Sign up to The Knowledge here: www.theknowledge.com/empire/ LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/empire This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/empirepod. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Welcome to Empire with me Anita Arlen.
0:30.0	And me, William. Welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan and me William Durample can I just say can I annotate that pause that pause was because you were doing an email
0:41.9	True right?
0:43.0	You don't email.
0:44.0	I'm sending you a message if you look at your phone.
0:46.0	You're sending me a message.
0:48.0	Oh, that's so sweet, is it lovely?
0:51.0	Okay. Oh, great. sweet is it lovely okay great our very special guest today it's a very
0:59.2	sweet message thank you William and yes I'll have two sugars if that's right
1:02.3	look I'm very very special guests today Thank you, William. And yes, I'll have two sugars if that's all right.
1:03.0	Look, our very, very special guests today.
1:05.4	Talking about Francis Barber, we started by talking about him on Tuesday.
1:09.7	But we have the very excellent Peter Moore with us.
1:14.4	We do thank you so much Peter for joining us again and we should say right at the start that your
1:18.8	fantastic book, Life, Liberty and the Besuit of Happiness, Britain and the American Dream is out a week today in the UK.
1:25.6	Your timing is impeccable.
1:29.2	On Tuesday we were talking about Gough Square being a complicated social space,
1:34.6	but I'm not sure it's as complicated as this podcast room with all the crumpets going off
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