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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: Epochs #121 | Pitt the Younger: Part I

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week Beau and Luca chat all about the life and times of one of Britain's greatest statesmen and Prime Ministers, Pitt the Younger. From his strict upbringing under the tutelage of his esteemed father to his early and meteoric rise in Parliament, to his ultimate and nerve-shattering showdown with Napoleon Bonaparte.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to e-box number 121 and I'm joined by Luca Johnson how are you?

0:06.3

Hello yes I'm very very good thank you bow I'm really excited to be getting into such an icon.

0:13.0

Right, yeah, well, I mean, you're a contributor for the website, you've written a few articles for us now.

0:20.0

I have, yes.

0:21.0

We've had a couple of conversations on my channel history bro which everyone should be

0:24.4

subscribed to you've got your own channel as well just a little one yes just a trifle amiable arguments

0:30.0

amiable arguments so if anyone's interested do you subscribe to that as well.

0:34.0

But today we're going to talk about one of the greatest statesman, England, Britain, has ever had.

0:42.0

Yeah, I ever had.

0:43.0

Yeah, I think so.

0:44.0

One of the greatest prime ministers, Mr. William Pitt, the younger.

0:48.0

The younger, yes.

0:50.0

Because we're both big interested fans of his life and times.

0:53.6

Definitely and I think another reason why it was really important to to pick Pitt

0:58.7

the younger as it were for this topic is because sort of in the lead up to coming and doing this with you.

1:04.6

I've sort of been testing the waters a little bit with just people at work and my family

1:09.7

and just colleagues and oh yeah I'm going to be talking about Pitt the younger who you know or

1:16.3

he's sort of fallen by the wayside a bit in the public consciousness and you can feel that we're sort of losing his memory

1:26.0

and a lot of the greatness of what he stood for and so I hope that we can here today do a little something to breathe a bit of life back into that

1:35.7

legacy that's so well deserved. Yeah no absolutely I mean he's he was Prime

1:41.8

Minister all in all for something like

1:43.4

19-20-odd years. I think only Walpole really beats him for the longest time as PM.

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