87 A graveyard beneath the sea, Scapa Flow
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In this episode we set sail with Neil to visit one of the world’s great natural harbours, Scapa Flow in Orkney. This vast harbour is a beautifully bleak, windswept spot drench in drama, tragedy and power. For thousands of years, it played a vital role in maritime travel, trade and conflict. The Vikings anchored in its safe waters in the C11th. The British admiralty enlisted it in the Napoleonic wars. And in the First World War it was home to Britain’s Grand Fleet, before being pressed into service once again in the 2nd world war. In the First World War the entire, surrendered German navy was scuttled here in an extraordinary act of sabotage.
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| 1:01.4 | sea legs as we set sail for one of the most hauntingly beautiful |
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| 1:09.4 | Queue the music. |
| 1:15.0 | And I think about those boys in the shelter of the guns. |
| 1:35.3 | And I think about those boys in the shelter of the guns lighting their cigarettes, and five of them ducking away from the third light and Arthur leaning in taking his cigarette. and I think about how he survived and they didn't. That thought occurs to me over again. |
| 1:38.3 | And as Arthur said, what does that tell you about. In this episode we set sail for a graveyard cradled in calloused hands. |
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