Episode 148: Safe Passage

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Anyway...

Music

We start with the Opening of Craig Armstrong's score to Far From the Madding Crowd.
Glass Houses no. 13 from Ann Southern.
Earring from Julia Wolf.
Occam II for Violin from Eliane Radigue.
Rearranging Furniture from Gabriel Yared's score to By the Sea.
A bit of Movement II from Martynov, "Come in!" by Vladimir Martynov.

Notes

Plenty written about the Willie D.. I found Roger Branfill-Cook's Torpedo: the Most Revolutionary Weapon in Naval History to be particularly useful.
I also enjoyed stumbling upon this day-by-day breakdown of F.D.R.'s Presidency.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace. I'm Nate Demand.
0:04.5	It had looked like it would be safe
0:06.7	until the boats started blowing up.
0:08.8	German warships and aerosols
0:10.6	had retavic in the North Atlantic for nearly four years.
0:13.7	And the U-boats, the submarines,
0:16.1	made every crossing since the war broke out in the fall of 39,
0:19.7	a deadly game of chance.
0:22.0	More than 2500 ships at Sunk, Navy, civilian.
0:26.4	More than 5,000 sailors and seamen,
0:29.1	cooks, radio operators, passengers had been killed,
0:32.2	in open combat or by torpedoes,
0:34.8	slipping up through the depths while they slept.
0:38.0	But by the spring of 1943,
0:39.6	it looked like the Allies had taken back control.
0:42.2	American shipyards had been launching vessel after vessel
0:44.9	at astounding speeds,
0:46.5	new naval escorts for civilian ships,
0:49.0	with the Royal Canadian Air Force keeping watch from above.
0:52.4	The British had put their best scientific minds
0:54.4	in the task of freeing the Atlantic,
0:56.6	breaking codes in Bledsley Park,
	...

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