Hello there, fellow time travellers. I love you all. It's great to have you with me as we travel through time and space together.

Sometimes I think we might end up all having to live on an island together.

We better practice getting along well.

History is a fascinating mind of knowledge.

It's all ready to be unearthed, looked at again, analyzed, interpreted, however imperfectly.

So whilst we can't tell what the future holds, we can look back to the past in an effort to learn lessons. Sometimes we get it right, sometimes we get it wrong. Most of the time it's in the gray zone in between. But that endeavor is part of hope for help with coping with the present

and God knows we need it now and for good a real imperfect as it is that's what this

series of podcast is all about. So to help support them, to help support the series,

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you can pay monthly or you can pay annually and it's cheaper if you go for the whole year all at once but

either way I'd love to see you there and you become just part of the wider

family to contemplate all this stuff. Okay it's now time to strap into the time

machine as we set off towards the next stop in my love letter to the world.

Record or microphone. Action. The fun of the roads goes too far and a child is conceived.

Known to his mother as Umluana, the little blazing fire, he becomes in time king of the Zulu's,

laying the foundations for his people's greatness.

Under his descendants, the kingdom flowers, and the Zulu spirit, born

of his rule, bloodies the nose of the mighty British Empire. Hi Neil, last week we travelled with you to America as the people rose up, threw off the shackles of royalty and wrote

their constitution. Where are we this week?

Hi Paul, well in this episode we're leaving the United States of America. We're hopping over the Atlantic and heading to southern Africa.

We're to meet a powerful woman and a determined king, a king who ruthlessly trained an army of formidable warriors and built

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