Tales of History and Imagination

Buried Alive! (Re-Upload)

This is a re-upload of the original Episode 9, Buried Alive! It’s the same script as in 2020, but recorded with much better gear. I’ll be re-uploading the first 25 or so throughout 2022 and 2023
This week's Tale is a quick, bonus tale. I’ll be back with proper episodes 21st April. Content warning this episode is all about premature burial – and was first posted Halloween 2020.
You can read the episode here.
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The Beast of Gevaudan (Re-Upload)

This is a re-upload of the original Episode 5, The Beast of Gevaudan. 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
Today’s tale is set in the former province of Gevaudan in South-Central France. The years between 1764 and 1767, following the bloody, and costly Seven Years War – a Proto World War if ever there was one – which had left deep scars in the psyche of many a European nation – France included- and left many a monarch broke in its’ wake.
An isolated, rugged, rural spot – The terrain rough and mountainous – it is far too rocky to grow much by way of crops. The locals eke out a living in the hills, tending to livestock. From youth, the locals worked alone, out in the elements – constantly on the lookout for wild predators on the lookout for a free meal. Gevaudan is also surrounded by a vast forest; a dangerous and lawless place full of wolves, lurking outlaws, footpads and highwayman. It really is the kind of place you could imagine in the most vicious Grimm Brothers tales.
It’s against this backdrop that La Bete du Gevaudan - the beast of Gevaudan - came roaring into the consciousness of the French.
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Eilean Mor (Re-upload)

This is a re-upload of the original Episode 4, Eilean Mor. 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
The Flannan Isles, sometimes referred to as the 7 Hunters, are a tiny group of islands in the Outer Hebrides – a string of islands in the North of Scotland. Uninhabited, hilly and rocky, covered only by grass … people kept well clear of these, allegedly haunted isles. In 1899 a lighthouse was build on the island. Just what happened to the three lighthouse keepers?
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Tipu’s Tiger (Re-upload)

This is a re-upload of the original Episode 3, Tipu’s Tiger. It’s the same script as in 2020, but recorded with much better gear. I’ll be re-uploading the first 25 or so throughout 2022 and 2023
One day a prince named Tipu went out hunting in the forest with a friend. The experience would affect him for the rest of his life - reflecting in his art, signature, uniforms…. And musical instruments?  
The blog post of the episode is here.
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Hannibal in Bithynia (Re-upload)

 
This is a re-upload of the original Episode 2, Hannibal in Bithynia. 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 2023Today’s we’re Asiatic town of Libyssa, in Bithynia – modern day Turkey. The date, some time around 182 BCE. Hannibal Barca, one of the greatest Generals to ever live, is pacing his enclosure like a caged Barbary Lion. His life, from the age of nine had lead to this point – ever since his father made him take an oath he would “Never be a friend of Rome.” 
How did it all come to this for the Carthaginian strongman?
The blog post of the episode is here. Sources include: Hannibal Barca by ‘Captivating History’ A History of Rome by Max Cary and H.H. Scullard. 
 
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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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