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The battle of Agincourt and the Spanish communists

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Ranulph Fiennes talks about his ancestors' involvement in the battle of Agincourt, and Paul Preston explores the life of Spanish communist politician Santiago Carrillo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The impression that I got of it was how very, very frightening it must have been,

0:52.8

to have been a fighter with that sort of weapon in use against you.

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That was Ran off Fynes, talking about soldiers' experiences in the Battle of Agincourt. He himself explains afterwards, he said,

0:59.0

I was sure I was going to be killed.

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If I was going to be killed anyway,

1:03.0

what would it look like if the leader of the Communist Party was seen to die a coward?

1:07.0

And that was Paul Preston, describing an incident in the life of Spanish

1:11.2

communist Santiago Carrillo. You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC

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