The Crowning of Everest - Episode 4
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The world is waiting for news of success from the British expedition on Mount Everest.
James Morris, later to become Jan Morris, is a reporter from The Times newspaper embedded with the team on the mountain. When news arrives that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay have reached the summit, he must find a way to get the news to London without it leaking to other journalists waiting in Kathmandu.
Morris delivers the news via a secret code.
As the climbing team make their way down the mountain crowds gather to greet the heroes.
Presenter: Wade Davis Series producer: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham Sound design: Richard Hannaford Editor: Tara McDermott Production co-ordinators: Siobhan Reed and Helena Warwick-Cross
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, this is seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Wade Davis. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Wade Davis. I'm an explorer and anthropologist for years I've written about and |
| 0:58.0 | been obsessed by the extraordinary British expeditions which set out to climb Mount Everest. |
| 1:04.0 | Homoray has succeeded in conquering Mount Everest. |
| 1:08.0 | 1953 is the year they triumphed. |
| 1:12.0 | Just as a young Queen Elizabeth II is preparing for her coronation. |
| 1:17.0 | I hear present unto you Queen Elizabeth, your undarted queen. In this series the crowning of Everest I'm exploring how these two events shape Britain |
| 1:29.8 | I knew we just climbed a mountain. |
| 1:33.0 | It just happened to be the highest one. |
| 1:36.0 | Episode 4, Scoop of the century. |
| 1:52.0 | Edmund Hillary and Tenzenorgae have done it. They have reached the top of the world. They have |
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