Epox!

And welcome back to Epox.

This week I'm going to start a new series, no doubt it will be at least a mini series, talking all about

the voyage of Magellan, which was the first person ever to circumnavigate the globe.

So flat earthers need not really apply to this one, if you don't believe the Earth is a sphere,

and that Magellan could have possibly

headed west and kept going and ended up back in the region of Spain.

If you don't believe that's possible, then maybe give this mini-series a skip.

So, okay, I think it's a fascinating story. I really do think it's a brilliant,

brilliant story, chock full of adventure and daring do and tension and killings and sex,

violence, betrayal, all sorts of things. It's just a great story. It's one of the greatest

voyages of all time, right? I mean, other people did things that are arguably as dangerous,

but to be the first ones to circumnavigate the globe is really, really quite remarkable. So I think it's one of those

stories that every small child should know about, or at least sort of teenage level children

should know about. Perhaps if you're Portuguese or Spanish, it's more taught in your schools.

Certainly wasn't really talked to me formerly at school in any way.

We hear a little bit about Francis Drake, who also circumnavigated the globe,

a good generation or two, 60-odd years, 50 years later.

So being an English person, you hear a little bit about Drake.

But not really much about Magena, not really any of the details.

It's not sort of common knowledge, I don't think, in the Anglosphere.

But it should be.

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