HeyJaredTravels Through Time
In each episode we ask a leading historian, novelist or public figure the tantalising question, "If you could travel back through time, which year would you visit?" Once they have made their choice, then they guide us through that year in three telling scenes.
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Peter Moore: Thomas Cochrane's Explosion at Basque Roads (1809) (opens the original)
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On 11 April 1809 Thomas Cochrane, RN, made one of the most famous assaults in British naval history. At the Battle of Basque Roads – at which he destroyed much of the French Atlantic Fleet – he detonated an explosion vessel so powerful that it is still being spoken about today. This is a special and different episode of Travels Through Time. In it Peter Moore narrates the opening to his new book, A Dangerous Game: Thomas Cochrane's Life on the Edge. This illustrated excerpt features on the audio
Caroline Hopkinson-Woolley: The Disappearance of Agatha Christie (1926) (opens the original)
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This week the critic, writer and guide Caroline Hopkinson-Woolley takes us back to 1926 to consider a mysterious event. This was the perplexing disappearance of the best-selling author Agatha Christie. Christie's disappearance happened at a moment of great tension both in her own life and in British history. That May the General Strike had upended society in a way that was both unprecedented and terrifying for the establishment. Christie, meanwhile, was simultaneously experiencing commercial suc
Andrea Wulf: George Forster on HMS Resolution (1772) (opens the original)
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This week the award winning biographer Andrea Wulf takes us aboard Captain Cook's HMS Resolution to meet one of the most compelling of the ship's company: George Forster. When he embarked with Cook Forster was still a teenager. But fiercely clever, kind and sensitive, he would go on to distinguish himself as one of the most intriguing figures of the high Enlightenment. In this episode Wulf explains how 1772 was the year in which his life transformed. George Forster is the subject of Andrea Wulf'
Marie-Anne Mancio: Caravaggio and the Death of Ranuccio Tomassoni (1606) (opens the original)
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In this episode we explore one of the most infamous episodes in the history of art. Writer and guide Marie-Anne Mancio takes us back to the year when the Italian painter Caravaggio killed the pimp Ranuccio Tomassoni in a sword fight or organised duel on a tennis court in Rome. Caravaggio was a sublime artist. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his masterful use of light, the powerful narrative force of his paintings and his tender depictions of the human form. But as a person he was erratic.
Ellen Jones: The Battle of Actium (31 BCE) (opens the original)
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In the dramatic story of the fall of the Roman Republic, the Battle of Actium is a moment of the utmost significance. A naval action, fought off the western coast of Greece, today's guest, Ellen Jones, explains how Octavian defeated his rival Mark Antony in sensational style. The tangled story of these two political rivals was complicated by the additional presence of Cleopatra, Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. In 31 BCS she was the consort of Mark Antony and her dramatic retreat mid-bat
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