#OzWatch: The kindly Ben Stokes. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 May 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/27690569/josh-baker-dead-cricketer-20-dies-heartbreaking-tributes/
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm John Batchez. |
| 0:31.0 | With Jeremy Zakus. |
| 0:32.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. |
| 0:34.8 | It's time for good words to say about Ben Stokes. Over these last weeks, |
| 0:39.2 | Jeremy and I have been following the Australian news, which tends to follow the hero of all |
| 0:44.2 | England and Ben Stokes is a large personality however there's a story that is |
| 0:50.9 | both sad and inspiring a young man playing for the county leagues in Britain, |
| 0:57.0 | very promising bowler. I believe a left-handed bowler, suddenly. His parents are heartbroken, lots of |
| 1:06.2 | attention in the English press, and also in the Australian press for the death of a promising young man from the county leagues. |
| 1:16.0 | At the same time the story is told of once upon a time the young man was bowling against Ken against Ben Stokes. And as I understand |
| 1:26.4 | the story Jeremy, Ben Stokes hit nothing but sixes, discouraging the young man as if I'm not ready for the big time. |
| 1:34.0 | Ben Stokes then sent him an email, I believe, |
| 1:37.0 | saying, you've got a lot of promise, stay with it, kid, |
| 1:40.0 | you have your good days and your bad days, |
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