Shipwreck, scurvy & mutiny: the gruelling tale of HMS Wager
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time. |
| 0:05.0 | A bit of a different thing going on this week. |
| 0:07.3 | You've been immature and you've lied. |
| 0:10.3 | And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me. |
| 0:13.9 | I was trying to manipulate you. |
| 0:15.7 | Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window. |
| 0:18.1 | I know, I'd be like, are you joking? |
| 0:20.6 | I don't know. I guess you'd have to ask. |
| 0:23.5 | Someone that has sex. |
| 0:24.2 | Someone that has sex. |
| 0:26.2 | And remember, it's just between us. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome to the History Extra podcast. |
| 0:35.7 | Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal. |
| 0:50.3 | In January 1742, a ramshackle boat washed up on the Brazilian shoreline. |
| 0:58.4 | Inside were 30 men, half-starved and close to madness. |
| 1:04.3 | Claiming to be survivors of the shipwrecked British vessel, the Wager, |
| 1:08.6 | they told an incredible tale of survival on the high seas. The men were |
| 1:13.4 | hailed as heroes, until six months later, another ship turned up. And these castaways had a very |
| 1:22.6 | different story to tell about what had happened on the wager. Author David Gran charts this gripping story |
| 1:29.9 | in a new book, and I spoke to him to uncover the tale. Your new book, The Wager, tells the story |
| 1:36.3 | of a British ship that was wrecked off the coast of Patagonia in 1741. But in fact, that shipwreck is |
| 1:43.5 | actually only a small part of what turns out to be a fairly |
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