From Blackbeard to William Kidd, the legend of pirates has long captured our imagination.

Now the National Maritime Museum reveals the brutal reality behind the fiction in a major exhibition featuring more than 200 remarkable objects.

Step inside the world of swashbuckling scoundrels in the story of piracy from around the globe.

Explore the myth, discover the truth.

At the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, closing January 4th, 2026.

So book now at rng.g.com.ukau-Uk slash pirates.

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Hello and welcome to Here Comes the Gillotine. I'm Frankie Boyle and I'm going to be talking

to Christopher MacArthur Boyd.

I had a real strange interaction, Frankie.

On the way to the studio yesterday, then I forgot about it until I went home.

I was listening to Frank Skinner's podcast, the normal universe version.

The Earth 616 version of us.

And I was laughing in Glasgow Sight Center and then as I was laughing a guy coming

across the road who had a very kind of do you know how some people have a mohawk but there's a

campness to it the kind of Liberty Spikes of colour he had a plain black mohawk and it wasn't very spiky but it was completely shaved at his sides and he went you fucking laughing at me you we can't and I thought wow that that's Glasgow masculinity it's just gossamer thin that if you see somebody laughing it must be an attack on you it's absolutely hair trigger and

that's like that's a young guy once you get

to people who at a suck a 60

like it's absolutely

all bits are off yeah you don't know what it's going to be like

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