October 30, 2025 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And biak to quarters. And I stand by this table
battery one broadside.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Din't want it to please Captain Bush fighters some pocket
it stop. Really, I saw.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Ready presenting Michael Redgrave. She has foresters, Indomitable Man of
the Sea, Oratio Hornblower.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It is easy looking back after all these years.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
There's ease at the risk of showing ourselves hunted fugitives
in a hostile country. Wis prodigious, but another night of
exposure in the snow and freezing wind would certainly have
killed Bushes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I too, was frozen and half dead.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
With fatigue, even at the cost of being apprehended and
sent on to Paris and death.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Warmth and rest were imperative.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
As the door of the house opened, I shaded my
eyes against the light and blinked at a tall, thin
man in a blue coat and the young woman beside him.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Who are you business of war? One of us has wounded.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Har Come in, gentlemen, Come into the hall and let
me shut out these dreadful weather.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
While we dried and bandaged Bush and carried him to
the bed which was shown us in a ground floor room.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I struggled with astonishment.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I felt at our kind and courteous reception. I had
expected hostile words and grim treatment. Had we been old friends,
we could not have been more cordially.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Received or attended.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Dry clothes were brought for me and Felix. The butler
helped me to dress. His master, he informed me awaited
me in the drawing room. As I entered the room,
the tall man rose, and the lady with the urban hair,
whom we met in the hall, rose with him.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I regret, Sir, I did not quite hear the name
which my major Domo announced.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Captain Horatio Honblower of his protetic Mattress's ship Sutherland.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
It is a great pleasure to meet you, sir. I
am Louison Fendo la don Conte de Garcie, and may
I present to you my daughter in law, Madame Lady
Conte de.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I am enchanted. Madame, you must be.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Fatigued after your journeying this Captain norm Law. I have
heard of you, and yetna bush Tomorrow perhaps you would
like to read the newspaper accounts of the loss of
your sheep. But at the moment, perhaps you will commit
me to ask you some personal questions.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, of course, Monsieur de Grecay, you have every right
to do that.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I presume you have escaped from an escort which was
taking you to Paris.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yes, sir, we escaped to the point about six kilometers
on the farther side of Navare. We found a boat
and attempted to navigate the river in.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
The darkness, but rapids here proved a undoing, as they.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Would do any boat. Well, it is only midnight now,
and you have come twenty kilometers. There is not the
slightest chance of your being thought here for some time.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You will be able to sleep in peace tonight. But
but mister, are you not well? That is, will you
not be communicating with the authorities.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I am the authority in this district. I have the
honor to be mayor of this community and so represent
the development. I say, I hope you will consider yourself
a young friend in this house, Captain Arnblas. I shall
tell the police that I have not seen you, and
I hope you will stay as long.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
As it is convenient to you, Hi and.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Our bush comfortable writers of sext And I'd like to
be allowed to get up to day, sir, and pay
my respects to our host. So shall three days rest
has completely restored you a good fortune in coming to
the one house where we would be welcomed.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And protected is amazing. I can hardly believe it yet, I.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Was wondering about that, sir.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Does the Count tell you why he's doing well?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
His daughter in law Marie has But oh, there's too
long a story just now. Briefly, the Count was an
exile during the Revolution and lived in London with his sons.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
When the boys grew up of the fame of Bonaparte.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And wanted to share in the glory of France, I
came back here. Yes, I can't take advantage of the amnesty,
and returned here the only part of his estates left
by the revolution.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
His three sons joined the army.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Dead gentlemen, other minds osen. But a group of gendarmes
is approaching the house. If you would be good enough
to allow me to send yourself in here, I should
like you to lock the door and remain silent while
I deal with the gendme.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We should do whatever you say so, but rather than
expose you to any danger.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
It will be no danger to anybody kept in ah,
here is yourself. If you will lock the door, I
will return to you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
As soon as possible.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It is I meet here.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You may safely open the door.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
The visits of the Gendarmes was one of whose teams.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They are perfectly.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Satisfied with my issue that you have not been here. Indeed,
they would have been amazed if I had told them otherwise.
The best possible thing has happened. They think you are
dead dead. Yes, from it me to explain. On the
morning after your escape, a systematic source of both banks
of the river was undertaken. A blanket which was known
to have been used by ut Nor Bush was found
(07:20):
on the bank knee of the Beg Dali.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
That would be the first rapid I suppose, the one
only about a mile from where we started.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yes, and this was taken to be an indication that
the boat had been capsized and its occupants dropped. It
is felt certain that your bodies will be discovered somewhere
along the river sharply, and when they are not, the
river is running so fast that you might well have
been swept right away, even to the sea. But I
note that your friends do not follow our conversation. Perhaps
(07:48):
you would translate, and if you would not think it
officious of me, I would suggest it would be inadvisable
to continue your journey while ut No Bush is still unwell.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I rapidly gave the others the gist of the conversation.
They were delighted, for, as Bush pointed out, if we
were dead, there was unlikely to be any search for us.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He scouted the idea of being unfit for travel.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Tell his lordship, Sir, I'll make myself a jury lake
in two shakes this time next week.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Are they walking as well as he does this time
next week? Yes, I do not think you have quite
realized the position in this French empire. There are police everywhere.
Every man looks with suspicion on his neighbor. To escape
by road is impossible. There is only one way you
can hope to leave this country. However, we can build
(08:39):
a boat exactly, but my friend, the river is unnavigable
in the winter.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It seems to me.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Quite necessary that you should give me the pleasure of
your company until next April at the earliest.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I look back now upon the memory of those
four months repent as the guests of the Comte de Grasse,
it presents a picture of mingled anxiety and delight. He
was the perfect host, always kind and courteous, ever helpful.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Under the skillful hands of Brand and Bush are fine
flat bottomed boat grew steadily. In the drawing room, the
Count Marie and myself made and perfected the plans of
the coming escape.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
It is settled then that you shall carry fishing rods
and seem to be a party of fishermen out for
the day. When you reach the coast, you must become
Dutch customs offer. My excellent cook and healthkeeper are already
busy with the uniform. But there is one thing that
worries me. This report in the paper of your deaths.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But I should have thought that would have made us safer.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
For such an extent. Yes, but I cannot believe that
Bonaparpe really considers the matter. Through proven We'll see you
have been pronounced dad by a government which does not
admit mistakes. Should you be taken now, there will be
no question of a trial. You will die secretly with
no attention being dount you well, I were going to.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Shoot us anyway, This makes no difference. I shall not
hold my plans in any particular because of it.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
God go with you, remember your pummies. Captain to return
after the war Marie will be as delighted as I said.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Thank you again, sir, thank you a thousand times. No,
don't chop with the scowls.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Pull have a few weeks on land, destroyed all your seamanship.
I have a little less staring around, a little more
work from you. Ayr hir that my bad temper was
for their benefit too.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Despite its tennisent appearance, we were upon a desperate and
dangerous adventure, and discipline was essential.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Excuse me, sir, listen, isn't that another damn? Yes? I
believe it is. The river's narrowing and getting faster too.
Pull over to the bank there, brand all right, I'm
gonna leak no waterfalls on this.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Trip if I can help it. A right ship, scowls,
I'll land and survey the stream. Yes, it's a dam
riding up in the steep one. We'll never get the
boat through that. There's a hundred yards of boiling water
below the dam too. You'd have to carry everything done.
(12:11):
We took Brown and myself three journeys. Ton't carry all
the stores to the point where the boat could safely
re enter the river.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Bush, though anxious to help, was only just able to
hobble over the uneven ground unladen. Then I faced the
problem with the boat itself. Carrying It was going to
be a colossal task if it had to be done.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Brown and I stood one on each side and put
our hands under the bottom. By the time the portage
was accomplished and the stores restowed, my head was swimming
and the perspiration pouring from me. But I had the
satisfaction of observing that Brown was a little better case
to resume my seat in the stem sheets. As the
boat slipped down the now placid river was sheer bliss.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
We should let me help. Shit, I can get around
on this stump better than you think.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's unnecessarily mister Bush, and we cannot afford the risk
of having a disabled Besides, the job's done now.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I don't want to be a dismal Jimmy ship. With
the look of the land.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I've got a feet and there's plenty more shallows and
dams to come.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And so it proved, although we can do only one
more damn less exacting than the first, we were caught
in shallows several times that day. Each time it was
necessary to lighten the boat and drag it through the
shoal water.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
By the time evening approached.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I was weary to death when it took all my
self control to maintain an appearance of cheerfulness.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Because evening drew on and I knew that keener danger
lay ahead. Bush of it too. We have to go
under a bridge at free yes, sir, Yes, mister Bush.
The bridge. He's right in the town, I believe, Yes,
mister Bush. Would you like me to look out for
a place to lay up till it's dark? So now
mister Bushby shall go straight on through gree air from
(13:54):
the lights.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
In the light.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Mister Bush, I've not heard of Nelson's injunction to lose,
not an you should.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I And it's not believe of thinking to me, mister Bush.
You can also give me the tiller. We're approaching the time.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Ian Bran when I say, poll your pull is O
the devil himself are after you.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Hi, keep it easy. There's the church tower now, and
there's the bridge.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Barge is being told there's some men on the bridge
looking down as well.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Then try to look like a contented peasantle said a
happy day out and has a fine basket of fish resides.
And if you can also managed to convey the impression
that you've never heard of an escaped Englishman, and.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That you're loyal to Bonaparte, and that you lost your.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Leg in fighting against protested English. Your great listens to
our chances. I see they read all that in my face.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Excellent new Bran, you can take that silig grin off
your moon face.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Stay now, We're gonna shoot the bridge after your life poll.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
M shooting of the bridge was.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Almost an anti climax. The swirl of the water and bronze,
powerful arms shot.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Us through in an instant. He caught only a glimpse
of curious faces peering down at us.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
An old man of the pillar of a barge lays
the lazy arm in greeting, and then the bridge and
the small town of bree Air behind us, and fading
into the gathering dusk.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Sure tench moment gotcha, But it was easy enough.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And further reason, mister you no doubt to all the
information you'll displayed on your face.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
I'd give a lot to display what I really think
about Bony in his foggy shit.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And you'll have to restrain your feelings for a long time.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yet I'm said, even if nothing unto it occurs, it
will be a fortnight before we reach the sea.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It not, And even then our troubles are only the beginning.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I realized that, Oh, if I only had two sound
light Brown.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
A small island on the port pile, if we'll run
the boat of ground there for the mador.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
He's a firstar it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
O both sep sculls. Oh, look in the bush? What
wake up? To wake up mister Bush?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
What's the matter?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It's you Brown?
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Anything wrong?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I don't know. It's a bit that is. The Captain's not.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Us, not here?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Where is he?
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Then? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I think I know your mate.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Some guffy eyes up, I'll fetch you some thanks.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Keep the catched hot over the fire in the back.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Shortly.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
He's a very wooded man Brown. Every responsibility rests on him.
Lies depend on him, and he catches more importance to them,
and they warrant, are.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You'll get us through?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
If you ask me, I'd say, young man.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He's a magician.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
He get out of anything in the way of danger.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Yes, other worries that we escape and reach England as
a court martial awaiting Captain on Bard for the loss.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Of the Southern Course.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Come to a decision as to what we shall do
when we reach n You say, now, if we arrive
in civilian clothes, we shall be questioned, and this will
be impossible to explain our lack of papers and passports
and so on. So therefore where our uniforms as officials
of the customs, and you will speak as little as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Your French is not so good, and I will Oh,
what's the matter with you? Brand cat? You spiner? Smell
smell what no I do? Don't think that? Guess later
a minute. There is something with LEAs the sea.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Share see.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Right down into the bank there. If we can smell
the sea with the wind blowing off the land, we
cannot be far away. Mister Bushes is a this is
a very notable a team.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Yes, sir, we've come a long way.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Four hundred miles and a homemade both over sols and
ravage through towns and.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Villages in a hostile country. If we ever get back
to England, mister Bush, I'll see your personally, is captain.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
If it's the last thing I do share, I've done
nothing but sit still and watch you work.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Well, that's a far harder task than mine was carried
out with patients of nobility.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's enough talk and carry out a brown. The smell
of the sea was stungue in my nostrils.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Now it brought with it all the old excitement and
all the old determination to do what was be done,
and to show no signs of the weakness and the
apprehension my thought. But beyond that sea and the immediate
dangers it presented lay larger ones, the.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Court martial, the future, my wife who taught me dead,
Lady Barbara, in whose eyes I might already be disgraced.
Sope that's lay in the future. Now our long journey
was passed, and before me lay.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
The sea.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
A ratio Hornblowers Darling Michael Redgrave is based on the
novels by CS Furnister.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, produced by Harry
Allan Towers
And biak to quarters. And I stand by this table
battery one broadside.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Din't want it to please Captain Bush fighters some pocket
it stop. Really, I saw.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Ready presenting Michael Redgrave. She has foresters, Indomitable Man of
the Sea, Oratio Hornblower.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It is easy looking back after all these years.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
There's ease at the risk of showing ourselves hunted fugitives
in a hostile country. Wis prodigious, but another night of
exposure in the snow and freezing wind would certainly have
killed Bushes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I too, was frozen and half dead.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
With fatigue, even at the cost of being apprehended and
sent on to Paris and death.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Warmth and rest were imperative.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
As the door of the house opened, I shaded my
eyes against the light and blinked at a tall, thin
man in a blue coat and the young woman beside him.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Who are you business of war? One of us has wounded.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Har Come in, gentlemen, Come into the hall and let
me shut out these dreadful weather.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
While we dried and bandaged Bush and carried him to
the bed which was shown us in a ground floor room.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I struggled with astonishment.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I felt at our kind and courteous reception. I had
expected hostile words and grim treatment. Had we been old friends,
we could not have been more cordially.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Received or attended.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Dry clothes were brought for me and Felix. The butler
helped me to dress. His master, he informed me awaited
me in the drawing room. As I entered the room,
the tall man rose, and the lady with the urban hair,
whom we met in the hall, rose with him.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I regret, Sir, I did not quite hear the name
which my major Domo announced.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Captain Horatio Honblower of his protetic Mattress's ship Sutherland.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
It is a great pleasure to meet you, sir. I
am Louison Fendo la don Conte de Garcie, and may
I present to you my daughter in law, Madame Lady
Conte de.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I am enchanted. Madame, you must be.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Fatigued after your journeying this Captain norm Law. I have
heard of you, and yetna bush Tomorrow perhaps you would
like to read the newspaper accounts of the loss of
your sheep. But at the moment, perhaps you will commit
me to ask you some personal questions.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, of course, Monsieur de Grecay, you have every right
to do that.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I presume you have escaped from an escort which was
taking you to Paris.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yes, sir, we escaped to the point about six kilometers
on the farther side of Navare. We found a boat
and attempted to navigate the river in.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
The darkness, but rapids here proved a undoing, as they.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Would do any boat. Well, it is only midnight now,
and you have come twenty kilometers. There is not the
slightest chance of your being thought here for some time.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You will be able to sleep in peace tonight. But
but mister, are you not well? That is, will you
not be communicating with the authorities.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I am the authority in this district. I have the
honor to be mayor of this community and so represent
the development. I say, I hope you will consider yourself
a young friend in this house, Captain Arnblas. I shall
tell the police that I have not seen you, and
I hope you will stay as long.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
As it is convenient to you, Hi and.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Our bush comfortable writers of sext And I'd like to
be allowed to get up to day, sir, and pay
my respects to our host. So shall three days rest
has completely restored you a good fortune in coming to
the one house where we would be welcomed.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And protected is amazing. I can hardly believe it yet, I.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Was wondering about that, sir.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Does the Count tell you why he's doing well?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
His daughter in law Marie has But oh, there's too
long a story just now. Briefly, the Count was an
exile during the Revolution and lived in London with his sons.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
When the boys grew up of the fame of Bonaparte.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And wanted to share in the glory of France, I
came back here. Yes, I can't take advantage of the amnesty,
and returned here the only part of his estates left
by the revolution.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
His three sons joined the army.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Dead gentlemen, other minds osen. But a group of gendarmes
is approaching the house. If you would be good enough
to allow me to send yourself in here, I should
like you to lock the door and remain silent while
I deal with the gendme.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We should do whatever you say so, but rather than
expose you to any danger.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
It will be no danger to anybody kept in ah,
here is yourself. If you will lock the door, I
will return to you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
As soon as possible.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It is I meet here.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You may safely open the door.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
The visits of the Gendarmes was one of whose teams.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They are perfectly.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Satisfied with my issue that you have not been here. Indeed,
they would have been amazed if I had told them otherwise.
The best possible thing has happened. They think you are
dead dead. Yes, from it me to explain. On the
morning after your escape, a systematic source of both banks
of the river was undertaken. A blanket which was known
to have been used by ut Nor Bush was found
(07:20):
on the bank knee of the Beg Dali.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
That would be the first rapid I suppose, the one
only about a mile from where we started.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yes, and this was taken to be an indication that
the boat had been capsized and its occupants dropped. It
is felt certain that your bodies will be discovered somewhere
along the river sharply, and when they are not, the
river is running so fast that you might well have
been swept right away, even to the sea. But I
note that your friends do not follow our conversation. Perhaps
(07:48):
you would translate, and if you would not think it
officious of me, I would suggest it would be inadvisable
to continue your journey while ut No Bush is still unwell.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I rapidly gave the others the gist of the conversation.
They were delighted, for, as Bush pointed out, if we
were dead, there was unlikely to be any search for us.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He scouted the idea of being unfit for travel.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Tell his lordship, Sir, I'll make myself a jury lake
in two shakes this time next week.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Are they walking as well as he does this time
next week? Yes, I do not think you have quite
realized the position in this French empire. There are police everywhere.
Every man looks with suspicion on his neighbor. To escape
by road is impossible. There is only one way you
can hope to leave this country. However, we can build
(08:39):
a boat exactly, but my friend, the river is unnavigable
in the winter.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It seems to me.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Quite necessary that you should give me the pleasure of
your company until next April at the earliest.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I look back now upon the memory of those
four months repent as the guests of the Comte de Grasse,
it presents a picture of mingled anxiety and delight. He
was the perfect host, always kind and courteous, ever helpful.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Under the skillful hands of Brand and Bush are fine
flat bottomed boat grew steadily. In the drawing room, the
Count Marie and myself made and perfected the plans of
the coming escape.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
It is settled then that you shall carry fishing rods
and seem to be a party of fishermen out for
the day. When you reach the coast, you must become
Dutch customs offer. My excellent cook and healthkeeper are already
busy with the uniform. But there is one thing that
worries me. This report in the paper of your deaths.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But I should have thought that would have made us safer.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
For such an extent. Yes, but I cannot believe that
Bonaparpe really considers the matter. Through proven We'll see you
have been pronounced dad by a government which does not
admit mistakes. Should you be taken now, there will be
no question of a trial. You will die secretly with
no attention being dount you well, I were going to.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Shoot us anyway, This makes no difference. I shall not
hold my plans in any particular because of it.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
God go with you, remember your pummies. Captain to return
after the war Marie will be as delighted as I said.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Thank you again, sir, thank you a thousand times. No,
don't chop with the scowls.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Pull have a few weeks on land, destroyed all your seamanship.
I have a little less staring around, a little more
work from you. Ayr hir that my bad temper was
for their benefit too.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Despite its tennisent appearance, we were upon a desperate and
dangerous adventure, and discipline was essential.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Excuse me, sir, listen, isn't that another damn? Yes? I
believe it is. The river's narrowing and getting faster too.
Pull over to the bank there, brand all right, I'm
gonna leak no waterfalls on this.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Trip if I can help it. A right ship, scowls,
I'll land and survey the stream. Yes, it's a dam
riding up in the steep one. We'll never get the
boat through that. There's a hundred yards of boiling water
below the dam too. You'd have to carry everything done.
(12:11):
We took Brown and myself three journeys. Ton't carry all
the stores to the point where the boat could safely
re enter the river.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Bush, though anxious to help, was only just able to
hobble over the uneven ground unladen. Then I faced the
problem with the boat itself. Carrying It was going to
be a colossal task if it had to be done.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Brown and I stood one on each side and put
our hands under the bottom. By the time the portage
was accomplished and the stores restowed, my head was swimming
and the perspiration pouring from me. But I had the
satisfaction of observing that Brown was a little better case
to resume my seat in the stem sheets. As the
boat slipped down the now placid river was sheer bliss.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
We should let me help. Shit, I can get around
on this stump better than you think.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's unnecessarily mister Bush, and we cannot afford the risk
of having a disabled Besides, the job's done now.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I don't want to be a dismal Jimmy ship. With
the look of the land.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I've got a feet and there's plenty more shallows and
dams to come.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
And so it proved, although we can do only one
more damn less exacting than the first, we were caught
in shallows several times that day. Each time it was
necessary to lighten the boat and drag it through the
shoal water.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
By the time evening approached.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I was weary to death when it took all my
self control to maintain an appearance of cheerfulness.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Because evening drew on and I knew that keener danger
lay ahead. Bush of it too. We have to go
under a bridge at free yes, sir, Yes, mister Bush.
The bridge. He's right in the town, I believe, Yes,
mister Bush. Would you like me to look out for
a place to lay up till it's dark? So now
mister Bushby shall go straight on through gree air from
(13:54):
the lights.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
In the light.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Mister Bush, I've not heard of Nelson's injunction to lose,
not an you should.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I And it's not believe of thinking to me, mister Bush.
You can also give me the tiller. We're approaching the time.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Ian Bran when I say, poll your pull is O
the devil himself are after you.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Hi, keep it easy. There's the church tower now, and
there's the bridge.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Barge is being told there's some men on the bridge
looking down as well.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Then try to look like a contented peasantle said a
happy day out and has a fine basket of fish resides.
And if you can also managed to convey the impression
that you've never heard of an escaped Englishman, and.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That you're loyal to Bonaparte, and that you lost your.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Leg in fighting against protested English. Your great listens to
our chances. I see they read all that in my face.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Excellent new Bran, you can take that silig grin off
your moon face.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Stay now, We're gonna shoot the bridge after your life poll.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
M shooting of the bridge was.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Almost an anti climax. The swirl of the water and bronze,
powerful arms shot.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Us through in an instant. He caught only a glimpse
of curious faces peering down at us.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
An old man of the pillar of a barge lays
the lazy arm in greeting, and then the bridge and
the small town of bree Air behind us, and fading
into the gathering dusk.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Sure tench moment gotcha, But it was easy enough.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And further reason, mister you no doubt to all the
information you'll displayed on your face.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
I'd give a lot to display what I really think
about Bony in his foggy shit.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
And you'll have to restrain your feelings for a long time.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yet I'm said, even if nothing unto it occurs, it
will be a fortnight before we reach the sea.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It not, And even then our troubles are only the beginning.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I realized that, Oh, if I only had two sound
light Brown.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
A small island on the port pile, if we'll run
the boat of ground there for the mador.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
He's a firstar it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
O both sep sculls. Oh, look in the bush? What
wake up? To wake up mister Bush?
Speaker 6 (16:29):
What's the matter?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It's you Brown?
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Anything wrong?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I don't know. It's a bit that is. The Captain's not.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Us, not here?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Where is he?
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Then? Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I think I know your mate.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Some guffy eyes up, I'll fetch you some thanks.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Keep the catched hot over the fire in the back.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Shortly.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
He's a very wooded man Brown. Every responsibility rests on him.
Lies depend on him, and he catches more importance to them,
and they warrant, are.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
You'll get us through?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
If you ask me, I'd say, young man.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He's a magician.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
He get out of anything in the way of danger.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Yes, other worries that we escape and reach England as
a court martial awaiting Captain on Bard for the loss.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Of the Southern Course.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Come to a decision as to what we shall do
when we reach n You say, now, if we arrive
in civilian clothes, we shall be questioned, and this will
be impossible to explain our lack of papers and passports
and so on. So therefore where our uniforms as officials
of the customs, and you will speak as little as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Your French is not so good, and I will Oh,
what's the matter with you? Brand cat? You spiner? Smell
smell what no I do? Don't think that? Guess later
a minute. There is something with LEAs the sea.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Share see.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Right down into the bank there. If we can smell
the sea with the wind blowing off the land, we
cannot be far away. Mister Bushes is a this is
a very notable a team.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Yes, sir, we've come a long way.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Four hundred miles and a homemade both over sols and
ravage through towns and.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Villages in a hostile country. If we ever get back
to England, mister Bush, I'll see your personally, is captain.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
If it's the last thing I do share, I've done
nothing but sit still and watch you work.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Well, that's a far harder task than mine was carried
out with patients of nobility.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That's enough talk and carry out a brown. The smell
of the sea was stungue in my nostrils.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Now it brought with it all the old excitement and
all the old determination to do what was be done,
and to show no signs of the weakness and the
apprehension my thought. But beyond that sea and the immediate
dangers it presented lay larger ones, the.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Court martial, the future, my wife who taught me dead,
Lady Barbara, in whose eyes I might already be disgraced.
Sope that's lay in the future. Now our long journey
was passed, and before me lay.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
The sea.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
A ratio Hornblowers Darling Michael Redgrave is based on the
novels by CS Furnister.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, produced by Harry
Allan Towers
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