GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the 17th Century off the coast of India. Here, thanks to Claude of Anthropic, are the key points from the CBS Eye on the World program schedule:
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 6 July 2024
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Summary
Here, thanks to Claude of Anthropic, are the key points from the CBS Eye on the World program schedule:
First Hour:
- Segment on the book "The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy" by Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan. This covers the exploits of the legendary 17th/18th century pirate Henry Avery.
- Segments on the book "A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire" by Emma Southon. This provides a fresh look at the overlooked and misunderstood women of ancient Rome.
- Continued discussion of "A Rome of One's Own" by Emma Southon, exploring the hidden histories of Roman women.
- Segments on the book "His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine" by S.C. Gwynne. This covers the rise and fall of the world's largest airship in the early 20th century.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batche for the show begins tonight with the Pirate King. |
| 0:05.0 | We're in the Indian Ocean. His name is Henry Avery, former Royal Navy officer. |
| 0:11.0 | Now a Pirate leading a crew. |
| 0:13.2 | He doesn't tell them his real name. |
| 0:15.6 | And they're looking for treasure off of the coast of India. |
| 0:20.1 | And they score very big, too big. They spot a |
| 0:24.0 | spot a ship coming home from the hodge |
| 0:28.7 | loaded with jewels and diamonds and the daughter of the mogul, the richest man on earth, and all of her attendance. |
| 0:37.4 | The pirate crew grab everything it can, including all the women, but Henry leaves the daughter of the mogul |
| 0:43.8 | alone takes her treasure back to his cabin and that treasure was never found it's said to be buried somewhere in the beaches of Cornwall. |
| 0:56.0 | Perhaps been searched for for 300 years. Henry Avery then became too hot, even |
| 1:01.9 | as soon as it made him too hot. He had to run. Where did he |
| 1:04.9 | run to? Back to England, of course. And in a coincidence on purpose, he ran back into an acquaintance from earlier. |
| 1:16.0 | Man named Daniel Defoe. Yes, that Daniel Defoe. |
| 1:20.0 | Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe. |
| 1:22.0 | A playwright, a novelist, a rascal, and a spy for the king. |
| 1:27.0 | This is the period of when the English crown went to unite with the Scottish crowd making the United Kingdom. |
| 1:37.6 | Daniel de Foe and Henry Avery, remember there wanted men sometimes, were dispatched to Edinburgh to influence pedal, to write documents |
| 1:48.9 | that were fraudulent but persuasive. After that adventure they teamed up and rolled through society |
| 1:57.6 | with Henry Avery always having a pseudonym. What we have about Henry Avery in his fate is a couple of documents, one play, |
| 2:07.7 | one short story I believe, sometime in the second decade of the 18th century. The joke is they were probably both |
| 2:16.7 | written by Daniel Defoe and Henry Avery. Anyway, the Pirate King, the treasure somewhere in the beaches of Cornwall, Henry Avery disappeared. |
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