This episode we go treasure hunting, exploring three stories from around the world focussing on our obsession with greed and wealth.
We sail around the globe the wrong way telling an epic tale of survival, visit a tropical island in search of lost treasure and learn about an unusual hermit. Each story is about more than glittering gold and priceless gems, it’s a tale of the lengths man will go to in the pursuit of fame and fortune.
Anton talks about a German man desperate to discover the lost treasure of Lima on Cocos Island and I use the logs of Guernsey Great Philip Saumarez to recount the epic round world trip of the Centurion in search of Spanish gold! We also meet a hermit with a familiar name but a very unfortunate story.
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46: 🥔 Potato, Potato, Potato, foundation of the modern world
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43: 🔮 The History of Magic
42: 🧒22 Orphans to Save the World - Intelligent Speech 2022
41: 🦜 William Dampier, explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist
40: ⌛ What is time?
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39: 🎈The ‘True History’ of Flight
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38: 🪃 The Paradoxical Platypus
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