Greetings fellow time travellers, as always it's lovely to have you with me for this endless journey through space and time.

Before we get started on today's episode, the usual customary big thank you to everyone who supports this podcast series by

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with a bit of cash and sign up become a member of the family it's a community of

history-loving question-asking curious types We do question and answers, we do

competitions and the vaudcasts and the podcasts are all there, but it's a it's a

community of people who share ideas, so come along and join that family of like-minded

types. That's the end of the Adver. It's now time to strap yourselves into

the time machine as we set off on the next stop on my love letter to the world.

Recorder microphone, action. Since by Thagoras in the 6th century BC it was known the earth was round

But by the 1400s, learned Europeans still only knew of a world of three continents, Africa, Asia and Europe.

But in the desire for spice and the push for profit intrepid explorers sail off into the west

on a mission to circumnavigate the earth for the very first time.

Endeavoring to understand history in hopes of illuminating the future. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter

to the world.

Hi Neil, in last week's episode, the year was 1530, and we were in Italy to see the man who

ruled over an empire where the sun never set, crowned Charles the 5th Holy Roman Emperor.

Where are we this week?

Hello again Paul. This week's episode is completely different. It's about one of those incredible historical firsts.

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