The History of the World podcast Magazine - 5th June 2023

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Unscripted (52) - In this episode of the podcast, we look back at the day of the Battle of Hastings in England in 1066, the incredible geoglyphic creations of the Nazca cultures of Ancient Peru, the amazing life of the early modern King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolfus, and what happened to Egypt after the fall of the New Kingdom.

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0:00.0	The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. This is the history of the World Podcast Unscripted. Oh, yeah. Hello everyone welcome to the history of the world podcast
0:49.9	Unscripted the reason why we've got an unscripted episode this week is because I'm still
0:55.2	currently in the process of writing the next episode. The next episode is on the Elizabethan
1:01.6	Sea Dogs. So it's going to be an episode that's going to be quite
1:06.4	packed full of information. It's quite an intense one. It's going to be worth the weight, I'll tell you that. The story will contain
1:18.6	Queen Elizabeth the 1st of England, Queen Philip the 2nd of Spain,'ll also be meeting Sir Francis Drake and Sir Water
1:26.7	Valley among others and it really does take place in the theatre of
1:31.2	exploration those first voyages across the Atlantic to the in the early years so it's really going to be an exciting episode. Now this week we're going to
1:47.5	still quench your history first by doing one of our one of our new magazine style episodes on the
1:57.9	unscripted on the unscripted episode library and this week we're going to be looking back at what was going
2:07.0	on in the history of the world podcast on this date on previous years gone by. Now this time last year we were talking about the
2:16.7	Battle of Hastings one of the most famous battles in human history where the Normans invaded the English from overseas
2:29.1	from over on the continent in French land. So let's find out exactly what happened as we go back one
2:36.8	year and revisit this story. Let's find out exactly what happened on that fateful day in 1066.
2:44.0	Accounts of the Battle of Hastings mention a character called Taifir, who had travelled with the Normans to England and then to the battle.
2:57.8	At the start of the battle, Taifir emerged from the Norman front line.
3:04.0	He is said to have started singing the song of Rowland,
3:08.0	which refers back to the Battle of Ronsevo Pass,
3:12.0	a famous Frankish battle from the 8th century and subject of our episode 18.
3:17.2	He is also said to have been playfully juggling with his sword.
3:24.0	Whether or not these accounts are strictly true or not,
3:27.0	there is a suspicion of him charging into the Anglo-Saxons
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