RHLSTP Book Club 95 - David Grann

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Book Club #95 - The Wager - Richard takes a Transatlantic call luckily in a time when it’s much easier to traverse the oceans, with David Grann the best-selling author and journalist, about his fantastic book The Wager - A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. It’s an unbelievable and remarkable true story which has much to tell us about our history and the present day. David talks about what it’s like to work on a book that goes on to be an Oscar Nominated move, Killers of the Flower Moon and how he discovered the largely forgotten story of The Wager, the meticulous research required to create a book like this and how to deal with conflicting accounts of the same story. Also the surprisingly horrendous effect of scurvy, the difficulty of persuading men to become sailors at a time when death seemed almost inevitable, the class divisions and racism that made the crew of The Wager’s nightmare voyage even more nightmarish, how a cut off ear was the impetus for all of this madness and David’s slightly insane trip to visit Wager Island and why it was worthwhile. A really excellent chat about a highly recommended book.

Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-real-hero-pa-david-grann/3440772?ean=9781471183706

Or the audiobook here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-The-Wager/dp/B0BPTL14T5/

See Rich's stand-up tour Can I Have My Ball Back - https://richardherring.com/ballback/

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0:00.0	Hello it's Richard Herring here welcome to my podcast feed powered by a-cast plus and my
0:06.7	stand-up tour is about to begin can I have my ball back first-stand-up tour in six years many of you
0:12.2	just know me from the podcast.
0:13.9	Don't know, I've done 14 or 15 stand-up tours in my own right.
0:19.0	I'm a brilliant Stand-Up comedian,
0:20.8	and can I have my ball back? I think it's my best show ever that's what the audience is saying it's about
0:26.8	testicular cancer but it's funny because testicles are funny even though
0:30.3	cancer isn't I'm really pleased with it I'd love you to come and see it.
0:34.5	Bring your friends. Some of the show's selling really well, some of them selling really badly.
0:39.2	It's a traditional Richard Herring tour, but here's where I'm going to be.
0:43.0	2nd of May, Thursday at the Luton Hat Factory.
0:46.0	It's a small venue, but there are still tickets left.
0:48.0	Third of May, I'm at the Berry Hedge End, which is near Southampton.
0:52.0	That's looking more full full but still some availability.
0:54.4	8th of May I'm at the Leicester Square Theatre. There's about 10 tickets left for that
0:58.2	one though I am back at the Leicester Square Theatre in June and then I'm at St.
1:02.2	Obans on the 9th, Gloucester on the 10th,
1:04.8	Chorley Little Theatre on the 11th, that's sold out, but you can join the waiting list
1:08.7	and then the 12th of Bay.
1:09.8	I'm at Glasgow, afternoon show sold out.
1:12.2	Evening show, extra show, put on still with tickets and
1:15.8	then there's lots more go to Richard Herring.com slash ballback slash tour or Richard
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