August 13, 2025 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hold our hands back the quarters.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm at the turn by this table battery one broadside.
Din't want it to please? Captain Bush thinkers on pocket.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Vince pops with it eyes already?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is that Michael Redgrave?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He has Forester's indomitable Man of the Sea ratio, Hornblower.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
When I look back over my life, I can recall
many times when despair filled my heart.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And first I joined the.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Fleet as a raw midshipman and turned seasick inside of harbor.
When I was given my first command and lost it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yet none was.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Worse than the days when I found myself captured by
the Spaniards and crept into their prison.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That the all.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
What is that you are, Senor hon Blower? A possible
exchange of prisoners?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's it?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
No, no, no, no, it is not for that reason
that I have requested Senor O'Brien to bring you to
my office.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Ah well, I've just had hopes.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You are young, Senor. Those who are young are forever hopeful.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
But if I cannot set you free, my young enemy,
I can at least make you more comfortable, eh or comfortable.
You are now a lieutenant under the Articles governing Treatment
of Prisoners you are entitled to certain privileges.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, yes, it had slipped my mind.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
You shall no longer be quoted with the midshipman.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Senor O'Brien will see to it that you are transferred
to the prison rooms reserved for captured officers.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Who more alike sales than rooms to my way of thinking.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
So, Senor O'Brien, yet comfortable. Also, Senor Honbler, you will
receive the half pay of your rank, Thank you, sir,
and your peril will be accepted. You will be at
liberty to visit the town and the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Understand for only two hours each day?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, I understands.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
I have your word. Then, as an officer and a gentleman,
you promise to make no attempt to escape.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You have my words, Senor. You should be more happy.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
So I was on parole two hours of freedom each day,
and while it was small comfort against the fact that
I was still a prisoner, I must admit that there
was pleasure in it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, now if it ain't.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Mister Holmes lor hello brand Look there now across Feral
Bay to the entrance. Do you see that long, wicked
reef that guards the entrance that the end, says Del
the owl o. The Spaniards call it the devil's teeth.
They've taken the bottom out of bed ship.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Ah, there's rough weather coming. He is there alone, and
by tomorrow or the next day, the wind's shifting.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So it is.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
You'd rather be alone, wouldn't you, mister Halldor.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, since you ask me, O'Brien, yes, I would.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Ah know that's a beauty because you're you back in prison,
mister Halldoer, your two hours parole is over.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And that's how it went, the same deadly round, the
same sick misery of captivity, day after day.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And month after month. And the only time I felt
free was during.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Those precious hours when I stood above the harbor and
watched the ocean. And then came a day when the
ocean heaved up before the southwest gale, when the waves
came crashing in white thunder against Dente's Del diabolol the
Devil's teeth.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I stood there watching him.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Suddenly sorr, ship there.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Is a ship, senor, do you see yes, Senor, yes,
our captain's a fool heading this way in a gale.
He had any sensed heave to and stay out to
see until the wind slackens.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It is a Spanish ship, must be. No British captain
would be so insane.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
The devil's teeth will terry ship to ribbons.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What is the matter the.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Ship that now approaches, There is another behind it, an enemy.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I must have found the commandant.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
What a British ship signor it cannot be seen from here,
but from the very top of the headline.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
British ship must be a man of war. There's a
commandant for you. He's climbing up here. Now I've got
another hour of my parole. I must stay here and watch.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
These enemy is forcing him straight towards the teas of
the devil.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And as if your captain had any sense, you give
up and surrender. It turns, It turns to the channel.
It turns.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
N do not mess sport more to part Oh, where
is the channel?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He will make it the a.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
She's gold, a wreck all of an instrument, No, senor, no,
she remains a float floated at your fool first.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
And the devil's teeth, I mean every mask on from
the shop, and the deck.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Swept clean, and they're out of seagores.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
A kingship that drove there, God, Louis, how long will
it lie to.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
In the lark?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hurry on long and hurt an hour? Two hours? Look
look another wave?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What yeah, sd God command an.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yes, I can see them two? No, no, free? At
what harmiest? If they were a hundred we could do
no good. There's no earthly way to get them off
the teeth. Sen your old brand is right.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
There is no way a boat could get through the
way from here. It would founder and sing, you said
one from here, sir. But look across the water there.
Look at that little bait. Do you see it's partly sheltered,
and the boat might.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Be launched from there, Senor, we do not.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Have a boat there, and I can't as car We
first get a boat to there.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Eh, How can we get a boat there without crossing
the water the land, Carlos, Senor, yes, yes, come on.
A boat can be put up on wheels, and there
must be a dre somewhere in the town, and we
can hoist a boat up onto the drey, hits up
a team of horses and go overland, and.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Once we're at the bay we can launch it. Don't
you see? It can be done.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Since you come and done, He's right, it is possible, it.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Is dangerous, of extreme danger. Come and let me command
the boat, use and your home blow.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yes, let me take six.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Fishermen with me, men who know how to handle those
men like you know, like Carlos.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I will go with you. Violence, silence, very well lit,
and porn blower. This possibility of saving Spanish lives was
your fault, and I cannot, in all conscience deny.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You the chance to carry out yourself.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Remember only that I have your parol.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yes, you have my parosa, and I trust you will
come back alive.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
We shall, all of us pray.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
The land was behind us, that safe, solid ground upon
which we stood and watched the Spanish schooner drive to destruction.
There she lay upon the jagged reef called Diente's del
diablo the Devil's teeth. And yet as a handful of
fishermen and I attempted to rescue the survivors. And I
was filled with a great elation to be at sea,
(09:44):
even such a wicked sea.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I've been on shore too long.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I was young, filled with such excitement that fear was
driven completely out of me.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
All thats signor become closer to the.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Careful Carlos, is the broken mass directly in our cor
Nobody to assa see it? There are four of them,
four not to be observe.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yes, I see it well.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Closer, Carlos, the waves are very strong. Closer, get him away?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Why then about it's gonnare we are from there? After
the next way? After the next way? Really hears they're
cutting the rooks.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That told them to the mast, ready, Carlos, signor. After
the next wave. Wave came, and then we went through
a welter of spray and foam. The survivors jumped.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
One of them sank like a stone, never to reappear,
and the other three landed safely.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
We are in less danger here, sen Your at least
there are no rocks. It grows dark. It becomes hard
even to make out the shoreline. We'll rid the sail, Carlas.
We can beat across the wind and stay clear of
the reef. See, Senor, and the sea anchor, Carlos. We'll
need a sea anchor, that also, Senor. It could be
a very long night. No, the wind may die down.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh as to that always the wind dies down sooner
or later. No, but until this happens, well, we're safe.
Enough had in the open water.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But it is very cold.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
We'll have the men lie close together. The warmth of
our own bodies will keep us all alive.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
See Senor. When the wind dies we get back to shore.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No, well, what are the courses there?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I have given my parole to return, haven't I.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
See, Senor?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Monthing more on our word right. Nothing's only that you
have risked your life to help these countrymen of mind.
You are a good man.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
So the night came down on us, a nightmare night,
shrieking wind and waves that rode the black water like
white dead.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
We tried to sleep during the night.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
One of the survivors died, wind died down. The waves
came at us, still mountain high, but smoother, now less dangerous, Senor.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Senor, please to wake up.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
They came away.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
He want us to turn tattle.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
In that direction to see wait the next wave. Yeah,
what's the matter of gus?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
What is it? It is not one of ours, Senor.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It is British.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
British, yes, says we have fishermen.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Our eyes are sharp.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
It is a British frigate, the one which forced the
schooner onto the Devil's teeth.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Frigates one of ours blockading the coast, one of us,
sidor what.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Do you do taking up my shirt? It's white, it's
the only white shirt on the boat.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, put it on the march head. Make it a
stress signal. No, we do not wish to be picked up.
We are Spaniard senor that is the enemy.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Better to wait, now, go with fools, wait for what for?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
More cold and wind for waves than a band to
pour over the gungles sooner or later.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I am hurting this vefferal on my art.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
There's one man dead already, and more of us nearly.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
So I'll make signals to her. I say she's bound
to see she will pick us up a British ship,
all right me buck out, you will turn out, you
come over the side.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Thank you don't even have a.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Certy of back, do you?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Lous a macerel? You spent has e a liquor?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Since?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well? What ship is his Majesty's ship? Thirty army? You
speak English?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm a King's officer, all army.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I want these men well caredful, then, spen, you're just
well caredful, and I want the dead man given decent burial.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Yeah, yeah, that says lady gagging you're on with this
big boord, Sir, he says he's British.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Writtish Lieutenant horn Bower, later his Majesty's crick it into fatigable.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Well, no, I say, and what are you doing in
an open craft for.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
The mob of I beg your pardon, mister Hornblower. Welcome
about the Satis as soon as your clothed. And while
i'm i'm and you'll want to speak to Captain Crombe.
Now that you mentioned it, horn Blow, You're quite right.
I couldn't possibly have him taken prisoner. Oh, I should
(15:13):
have to set him ashore at the earliest possible opportunity. Now,
as regards yourself, I understand you hold a commission as lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yes, sir, came through when I was in prison.
Speaker 11 (15:21):
You were under Captain Pilieau of the Indefatigable, Yes, sir,
and I don't know if the Indefatigable is still in
these waters, one Blower. I don't think it is, but
you are probably still carried on their books. I believe
the Admiral of the feat will have to decide, but
until we meet him, you can do duty aboard this ship.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I can't say you mean, I'm sorry, sir, it was
almost forgotten.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I can't do that. What's then, sir, I'd welcome the opportunity.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I well, I'd give half the years ahead of me
to be out of that Spanish prison and back on
tootiv or.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Not in prison. No, sir, but I was. Oh, I
see the role. Well that orders the case puts the
decision squarely up to you.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yes, sir, does it?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I must go back and afy, sir, as soon as
it's convenient for you to to dispatch a boat.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I was back the next day.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It turned calm and clear, and the sets stood in
toward Farrall sent a cutter in under a white flag.
I remember how all the others, Carlos and the rest
were laughing and talking gaily Brian half the time with him.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, no, if it isn't, young mister holmeslre hello Brian.
Never did we expect to see you again, nor weait.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
To see once again our homes hey, And he goes
when we are driven out to see if we commit.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Ourselves to God's massy.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Now and you need and for this.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He you're down in the mouse, mister hornlore Es.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Perhaps I am. No, don't need to tell me the way.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Your heart's in your eyes, looking after that cutter now
and looking out beyond the devil's teeth to that British
shipp of yours.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You're a food.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Excuse me, I'm going back to my prison quarters.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
The walls of the Spanish prison seemed much more confining now.
There were many times when I cursed myself for coming
back to them, and even the comfort I had formerly
gained from my two hours each day in the open
air had lost its flavor. It was comfort no longer,
not after that precious taste of freedom. I was like
a man who, after having glimpsed a huge, wonderful meal,
(18:27):
then finds himself living on only a crust of bread.
This is the mood I was in when one day
I was sent for by the common dad. Sit down,
Lieutenant Hornblower, if you please sit down, Yes, sir, you
wonder why I sent for you?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
You see this dispatch I hold in my hand, Sir.
It is a personal order for me to take immediate
steps to set you at liberty. But at the liberty
I am to restore you under a flag of truth
to your fellow countrymen.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Stormy. I'm being set fres.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
In recognition of allowing me to read, in the recognition
of his courage and self sacrifice in saving life at the.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Peril of his Oh, come on, Dad, you are overwhelmed. Yes, little,
a little.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
English, when you are right. I tell you that to
a Spania, the deed such as yours makes us cry
and laugh and be happier. Sena, to be enemies is
a bad thing. To be a man of honor is
a good thing. Sen you, I am most happy, most happy. Indeed,
(19:46):
you have been set free.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Something I will I'll remember all my life.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
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Hold our hands back the quarters.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm at the turn by this table battery one broadside.
Din't want it to please? Captain Bush thinkers on pocket.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Vince pops with it eyes already?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Is that Michael Redgrave?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He has Forester's indomitable Man of the Sea ratio, Hornblower.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
When I look back over my life, I can recall
many times when despair filled my heart.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And first I joined the.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Fleet as a raw midshipman and turned seasick inside of harbor.
When I was given my first command and lost it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yet none was.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Worse than the days when I found myself captured by
the Spaniards and crept into their prison.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
That the all.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
What is that you are, Senor hon Blower? A possible
exchange of prisoners?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
That's it?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
No, no, no, no, it is not for that reason
that I have requested Senor O'Brien to bring you to
my office.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Ah well, I've just had hopes.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You are young, Senor. Those who are young are forever hopeful.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
But if I cannot set you free, my young enemy,
I can at least make you more comfortable, eh or comfortable.
You are now a lieutenant under the Articles governing Treatment
of Prisoners you are entitled to certain privileges.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, yes, it had slipped my mind.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
You shall no longer be quoted with the midshipman.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Senor O'Brien will see to it that you are transferred
to the prison rooms reserved for captured officers.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Who more alike sales than rooms to my way of thinking.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
So, Senor O'Brien, yet comfortable. Also, Senor Honbler, you will
receive the half pay of your rank, Thank you, sir,
and your peril will be accepted. You will be at
liberty to visit the town and the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Understand for only two hours each day?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, I understands.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
I have your word. Then, as an officer and a gentleman,
you promise to make no attempt to escape.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
You have my words, Senor. You should be more happy.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
So I was on parole two hours of freedom each day,
and while it was small comfort against the fact that
I was still a prisoner, I must admit that there
was pleasure in it.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, now if it ain't.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Mister Holmes lor hello brand Look there now across Feral
Bay to the entrance. Do you see that long, wicked
reef that guards the entrance that the end, says Del
the owl o. The Spaniards call it the devil's teeth.
They've taken the bottom out of bed ship.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Ah, there's rough weather coming. He is there alone, and
by tomorrow or the next day, the wind's shifting.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So it is.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
You'd rather be alone, wouldn't you, mister Halldor.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, since you ask me, O'Brien, yes, I would.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Ah know that's a beauty because you're you back in prison,
mister Halldoer, your two hours parole is over.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And that's how it went, the same deadly round, the
same sick misery of captivity, day after day.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
And month after month. And the only time I felt
free was during.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Those precious hours when I stood above the harbor and
watched the ocean. And then came a day when the
ocean heaved up before the southwest gale, when the waves
came crashing in white thunder against Dente's Del diabolol the
Devil's teeth.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I stood there watching him.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Suddenly sorr, ship there.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Is a ship, senor, do you see yes, Senor, yes,
our captain's a fool heading this way in a gale.
He had any sensed heave to and stay out to
see until the wind slackens.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It is a Spanish ship, must be. No British captain
would be so insane.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
The devil's teeth will terry ship to ribbons.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
What is the matter the.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Ship that now approaches, There is another behind it, an enemy.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I must have found the commandant.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
What a British ship signor it cannot be seen from here,
but from the very top of the headline.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
British ship must be a man of war. There's a
commandant for you. He's climbing up here. Now I've got
another hour of my parole. I must stay here and watch.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
These enemy is forcing him straight towards the teas of
the devil.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
And as if your captain had any sense, you give
up and surrender. It turns, It turns to the channel.
It turns.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
N do not mess sport more to part Oh, where
is the channel?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He will make it the a.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
She's gold, a wreck all of an instrument, No, senor, no,
she remains a float floated at your fool first.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
And the devil's teeth, I mean every mask on from
the shop, and the deck.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Swept clean, and they're out of seagores.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
A kingship that drove there, God, Louis, how long will
it lie to.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
In the lark?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hurry on long and hurt an hour? Two hours? Look
look another wave?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What yeah, sd God command an.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yes, I can see them two? No, no, free? At
what harmiest? If they were a hundred we could do
no good. There's no earthly way to get them off
the teeth. Sen your old brand is right.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
There is no way a boat could get through the
way from here. It would founder and sing, you said
one from here, sir. But look across the water there.
Look at that little bait. Do you see it's partly sheltered,
and the boat might.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Be launched from there, Senor, we do not.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Have a boat there, and I can't as car We
first get a boat to there.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Eh, How can we get a boat there without crossing
the water the land, Carlos, Senor, yes, yes, come on.
A boat can be put up on wheels, and there
must be a dre somewhere in the town, and we
can hoist a boat up onto the drey, hits up
a team of horses and go overland, and.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Once we're at the bay we can launch it. Don't
you see? It can be done.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Since you come and done, He's right, it is possible, it.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Is dangerous, of extreme danger. Come and let me command
the boat, use and your home blow.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yes, let me take six.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Fishermen with me, men who know how to handle those
men like you know, like Carlos.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I will go with you. Violence, silence, very well lit,
and porn blower. This possibility of saving Spanish lives was
your fault, and I cannot, in all conscience deny.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
You the chance to carry out yourself.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Remember only that I have your parol.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yes, you have my parosa, and I trust you will
come back alive.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
We shall, all of us pray.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
The land was behind us, that safe, solid ground upon
which we stood and watched the Spanish schooner drive to destruction.
There she lay upon the jagged reef called Diente's del
diablo the Devil's teeth. And yet as a handful of
fishermen and I attempted to rescue the survivors. And I
was filled with a great elation to be at sea,
(09:44):
even such a wicked sea.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I've been on shore too long.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
I was young, filled with such excitement that fear was
driven completely out of me.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
All thats signor become closer to the.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Careful Carlos, is the broken mass directly in our cor
Nobody to assa see it? There are four of them,
four not to be observe.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yes, I see it well.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Closer, Carlos, the waves are very strong. Closer, get him away?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Why then about it's gonnare we are from there? After
the next way? After the next way? Really hears they're
cutting the rooks.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That told them to the mast, ready, Carlos, signor. After
the next wave. Wave came, and then we went through
a welter of spray and foam. The survivors jumped.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
One of them sank like a stone, never to reappear,
and the other three landed safely.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
We are in less danger here, sen Your at least
there are no rocks. It grows dark. It becomes hard
even to make out the shoreline. We'll rid the sail, Carlas.
We can beat across the wind and stay clear of
the reef. See, Senor, and the sea anchor, Carlos. We'll
need a sea anchor, that also, Senor. It could be
a very long night. No, the wind may die down.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh as to that always the wind dies down sooner
or later. No, but until this happens, well, we're safe.
Enough had in the open water.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But it is very cold.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
We'll have the men lie close together. The warmth of
our own bodies will keep us all alive.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
See Senor. When the wind dies we get back to shore.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
No, well, what are the courses there?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I have given my parole to return, haven't I.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
See, Senor?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Monthing more on our word right. Nothing's only that you
have risked your life to help these countrymen of mind.
You are a good man.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
So the night came down on us, a nightmare night,
shrieking wind and waves that rode the black water like
white dead.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
We tried to sleep during the night.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
One of the survivors died, wind died down. The waves
came at us, still mountain high, but smoother, now less dangerous, Senor.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Senor, please to wake up.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
They came away.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
He want us to turn tattle.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
In that direction to see wait the next wave. Yeah,
what's the matter of gus?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
What is it? It is not one of ours, Senor.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It is British.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
British, yes, says we have fishermen.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Our eyes are sharp.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
It is a British frigate, the one which forced the
schooner onto the Devil's teeth.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Frigates one of ours blockading the coast, one of us,
sidor what.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Do you do taking up my shirt? It's white, it's
the only white shirt on the boat.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, put it on the march head. Make it a
stress signal. No, we do not wish to be picked up.
We are Spaniard senor that is the enemy.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Better to wait, now, go with fools, wait for what for?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
More cold and wind for waves than a band to
pour over the gungles sooner or later.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I am hurting this vefferal on my art.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
There's one man dead already, and more of us nearly.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
So I'll make signals to her. I say she's bound
to see she will pick us up a British ship,
all right me buck out, you will turn out, you
come over the side.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Thank you don't even have a.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Certy of back, do you?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Lous a macerel? You spent has e a liquor?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Since?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Well? What ship is his Majesty's ship? Thirty army? You
speak English?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm a King's officer, all army.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I want these men well caredful, then, spen, you're just
well caredful, and I want the dead man given decent burial.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Yeah, yeah, that says lady gagging you're on with this
big boord, Sir, he says he's British.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Writtish Lieutenant horn Bower, later his Majesty's crick it into fatigable.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Well, no, I say, and what are you doing in
an open craft for.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
The mob of I beg your pardon, mister Hornblower. Welcome
about the Satis as soon as your clothed. And while
i'm i'm and you'll want to speak to Captain Crombe.
Now that you mentioned it, horn Blow, You're quite right.
I couldn't possibly have him taken prisoner. Oh, I should
(15:13):
have to set him ashore at the earliest possible opportunity. Now,
as regards yourself, I understand you hold a commission as lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yes, sir, came through when I was in prison.
Speaker 11 (15:21):
You were under Captain Pilieau of the Indefatigable, Yes, sir,
and I don't know if the Indefatigable is still in
these waters, one Blower. I don't think it is, but
you are probably still carried on their books. I believe
the Admiral of the feat will have to decide, but
until we meet him, you can do duty aboard this ship.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I can't say you mean, I'm sorry, sir, it was
almost forgotten.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I can't do that. What's then, sir, I'd welcome the opportunity.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I well, I'd give half the years ahead of me
to be out of that Spanish prison and back on
tootiv or.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Not in prison. No, sir, but I was. Oh, I
see the role. Well that orders the case puts the
decision squarely up to you.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yes, sir, does it?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I must go back and afy, sir, as soon as
it's convenient for you to to dispatch a boat.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I was back the next day.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It turned calm and clear, and the sets stood in
toward Farrall sent a cutter in under a white flag.
I remember how all the others, Carlos and the rest
were laughing and talking gaily Brian half the time with him.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, no, if it isn't, young mister holmeslre hello Brian.
Never did we expect to see you again, nor weait.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
To see once again our homes hey, And he goes
when we are driven out to see if we commit.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Ourselves to God's massy.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Now and you need and for this.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
He you're down in the mouse, mister hornlore Es.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Perhaps I am. No, don't need to tell me the way.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Your heart's in your eyes, looking after that cutter now
and looking out beyond the devil's teeth to that British
shipp of yours.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You're a food.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Excuse me, I'm going back to my prison quarters.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
The walls of the Spanish prison seemed much more confining now.
There were many times when I cursed myself for coming
back to them, and even the comfort I had formerly
gained from my two hours each day in the open
air had lost its flavor. It was comfort no longer,
not after that precious taste of freedom. I was like
a man who, after having glimpsed a huge, wonderful meal,
(18:27):
then finds himself living on only a crust of bread.
This is the mood I was in when one day
I was sent for by the common dad. Sit down,
Lieutenant Hornblower, if you please sit down, Yes, sir, you
wonder why I sent for you?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
You see this dispatch I hold in my hand, Sir.
It is a personal order for me to take immediate
steps to set you at liberty. But at the liberty
I am to restore you under a flag of truth
to your fellow countrymen.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Stormy. I'm being set fres.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
In recognition of allowing me to read, in the recognition
of his courage and self sacrifice in saving life at the.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Peril of his Oh, come on, Dad, you are overwhelmed. Yes, little,
a little.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
English, when you are right. I tell you that to
a Spania, the deed such as yours makes us cry
and laugh and be happier. Sena, to be enemies is
a bad thing. To be a man of honor is
a good thing. Sen you, I am most happy, most happy. Indeed,
(19:46):
you have been set free.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Something I will I'll remember all my life.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
A Ratio Hornblower starring Michael Redgrave is based on the
novels by C. S. Foresters. Music composed and conducted by
Sydney Torts, produced by Harry Alan Towers
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