Martial Bourdin (Re-upload)

This is a re-upload of the original Episode 1, Martial Bourdin. It’s the same script as in 2019, but recorded with much better gear. I’ll be re-uploading the first 25 or so throughout 2022 and 2023.

“At 4:45pm precisely, GMT, 15th February 1894, the grounds of Greenwich Park, London – home of the Royal Observatory, and a clock we’ll discuss later – are shaken by a resounding boom. Staff at the observatory recalled a “sharp and clear detonation, followed by a noise like a shell going through the air”. Peering through windows in trepidation, they attempted to work out what just happened. A park warden and a group of students ran towards the epicenter of the blast – where a solitary young man lay dying. The young man, who died not long after in a local hospital, was identified as 26 year old Frenchman Martial Bourdin.”

Just who was this young man, and what was his target that cold winter day?

Sources? Sorry all, I started off badly by not collating and sharing them. It’s something I get better at doing over time. This was collated together from several online articles, and a project management textbook (for the section on Frederick Winslow Taylor.) 
This tale first reached me via an introduction to the Wordsworth edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. 

The blog post of the episode is here. 

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