Pirates! NEW SERIES

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

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Summary

Swashbuckling rogues with a disregard for authority surging across the oceans, the smell of salt and gunpowder in their nostrils... looking for treasure on desert islands. Just like Dan, we're sure you've also grown up reading pirate stories and watching adventure films.

But, what if we told you that most of what you know about pirates isn't quite true?

This July, Dan is teaming up with the National Maritime Museum Greenwich to unravel the fact from the fiction and tell you the extraordinary stories of the most formidable pirates in history. From the South China Seas to the Barbary Coast and the Caribbean, he'll be joined by leading experts to chart the rise and fall of Piracy across the 17th - 19th centuries.

New episodes every Monday from 29th June to 21st July.

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Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.

You can email the podcast directly at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hi folks, I want to tell you about my latest series on Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:08.2	I expect like me, you have grown up reading or watching movies about pirates.
0:14.0	And I assume, like me, that you just love that scene.
0:19.3	Swashbuckling rogues, having adventures on the high seas, disregarding authority,
0:24.0	not taking it from the man, not taking any nonsense, inverting the strict hierarchy of the time,
0:29.7	living as a band of merry men and women, taking from the rich and giving to themselves,
0:35.4	surging across the great oceans and ships, the crash the power wave in their ears,
0:39.3	the smell of teak and salt and gunpowder in their nostrils,
0:43.3	I'm getting carried away. But you know where I'm coming from?
0:46.3	But what would you say if I told you that basically everything you think about pirates isn't true?
0:52.3	Treasure maps, parrots, buried treasure. So what is true? Well, my
0:59.7	latest series that is running all through this July, with new episodes every Monday, answers
1:05.1	that question. We'll be telling the real stories of the pirates you know, Blackbeard, Captain
1:10.3	Kid, and Anne Bonny,
1:12.5	and actually, they're better than the made-up stories. And I'll also be telling you astonishing
1:16.8	tales of the pirates that you don't know. Like Jung Yi-Sao, the queen of the South China
1:23.8	seas, definitely the most formidable pirate in history. So make sure you check out and follow Dan Snow's history hit
1:29.2	to get new episodes on Pirates every Monday this month.

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