May 2, 2025 • 21 mins
Follows the naval adventures of a British officer during the Napoleonic Wars, highlighting his leadership and bravery. The series combines historical context with maritime action.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hold our hands back to quarters. I'm Africa.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Stand by this tabo barry one broadside, didn't worry to
please Captain Bush points on pocket, didn't stop.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Very eyes presting.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Michael Redgrave see as Forester's indomitable Man of the Sea
ratio hornblower.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I have.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Long con.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh my is it?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
See those before and since that memorable time. I do
not remember being so utterly weirdy as I was after
the Nativity had plunged, burning under the surface of the
deep Pacific. The accumulated strain of planning and fighting reaction
had worn me out so that I sank almost training
into a hammer chair on the deck, slept as one drug.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It was the sun lifting care.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Of the horizon and blazing into my face that finally
woke me.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What is it? What good happens? Right? Slept all night?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Good morning, A week's back round about holding our course
close haul uh her morning, mister WoT. It's a miracle
we can hold a course at all.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Look at that rigging splices everywhere and hardly assail without
sortholes in it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yes, sir, she looks a chattered old vagabin.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But our makeshift Miss Masters still standings over those sticks
are still furrowed and gruvely shot. The sills are back,
the powders and eighty shot half buried in that bit
of tad oak.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Sir, and went, nevertheless, you've done wonders. H.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I might have done more, sir, but the member so exhausted,
I had to send 'em as many below as I.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Could to tell the drouser there's more dead on deck
than living.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I almost fair to gone to that, mister Bush.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Uh, what is the butcher's bill? Pretty heavy? Cracher, I've
cut it on a bit of paper.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Here.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Thirty eight q seventy five wounded mm are missing. They
were in the launch when the they did Dad's shot,
hid it and sunk it all the same.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Uh. You can gonna go mad when they.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Hear your victory. H. This isn't every day that a
frigate sinks a ship of the line.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Our victory, mister Bush, and I shall remember to give
you all the credit you preserve in my report.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, I shall go down and visit the wounded. Do
you better get some rest?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But what Lady Barbara, I'd forgotten our passenger is.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
She's still in the all up.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
As far as I know, I'd be too busy to see. Well,
my steward will have looked after her. If high born
ladies use.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Their position to force themselves into fighting ships, they must
be prepared to face the consequences.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Tell the truth.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I was a little uneasy at my neglect of Lady
Barbara Wilseley, but I'd had much in my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Below decks in the all up.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The scene was like an inferno, was hot and airless,
and the four flickering oil lamps added their smell to
the stems of builds, powder fumes and sick men. Yeare
seventy five wounded men were crammed together, groaning and sobbing,
gaspheming and vomiting under the care of the incompetent lorry
(04:48):
or my appointed surgeon, when our own certain had died.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Thank God, you've come, sir.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, I've come to make you assume your responsibilities, not
to relieve you of them as the lorry. Now come
round with me and make your report. Tell them this man,
what happens with lady Barbara?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Good morning, captain. I am sponging the poor man's through.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But tending the wound. It is a man's job. The
filthy work of a hospital is not fit for women.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now don't do that. Go away from here, go on deck.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Please understand me.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I am not attempting to be noble, but there is
work to be done in the King's service, and if
nobody else can do it, a Wellesley must.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
If one of my.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Brothers can govern India and another can fight the marauders,
I can do my part. Look at this glen. He
has a great splinter of wood under his skin. It
ought to be extracted at one. Yes, certainly, old mister Lorry,
are you ready to extract this splinter?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, ma'am, I don't be a fool man.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
If you will not do it, I will.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I will see that it's done me to be Lady Barbara.
But please go on down.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I should do nothing of the kind. Captain, I am
going to help.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But oh well as you will, ma'am, allorry worthy your instruments, Wilson, Hudson,
bring a stiff cut of rum and stand by the hole.
Williams will We are going to get that splinter right
of you, or you'll die. And but it's going to
hurt you. The fortnight which elapsed before we ran it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Cape Marler was a grim period.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Unfortunately, the weather held fair. Had we met Gales, I
could hardly have kept my leaking battered ship afloat. Although
some of the men became convalescent under Lady Barbara's care, gangrene,
shock and exhaustion was imposing upon me. The daily task
had sliding hammercrapped bundles.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Overside into the Blue Pacific ladyship's cockle of it, Sir,
how could you spare a moment to stick below, sir?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Stick cart?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Sir Christminster Bush, I thought he was improving, so he was,
Uh in spite of of his surgery. That a lady,
she's worried about him. Now I'm going into it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Oh Captain, I'm so glad you've come. I don't think
he's going to last much.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Sorry, I'd hope that he would be spare him.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He is, he confided.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
His mother.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Uh yeah, forget there was your hnd mother here jolting love.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Give a piculation, Heart, I'm here, Donald, don't it's like field,
poor boy, poor poor.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
A good boy.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Oh God grown to his from the light.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And Lady Barbla come away from prison up on deck
the summit shinning.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
He just looks sad, Captain, it just looks fair. He
was only a lad. He wishpo to r.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I had not been for you there, it would be
many more such scenes, Lady Barbara, if I resented your
presence on this ship, if I h vote that resentment
it anyway, I.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Humbly apologize. Uh ask you to forgive me.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
If it's nothing to the kids. Let us go on
and dick. Wait, Captain, we're in sight of land, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Ma'am, I just en't thring the gounse of Panaman. The
land on the port bow is the Pearl Islands. Oh, boy, you.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Before you run?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Is he a Spanish craft kitten?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yes, Captain Manuel Diaz commanding. If it was the same
locker that brought me the news that Spain was.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Now our ally and your letter requesting a passage on this.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Ship, Oh, it seems one hundred years ago instead of
for a few weeks. And now here we are almost
back in Panama, which I thought never to see again.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I would prefer not to see it, ma'am, especially if
the yellow fever still rages there yet. If I do
not refit in provision, ship will sink under my feet.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
She's setting a boat over there. It looks like the
same officer we met before.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I recognize, well, he should be pleased if we've accomplished
our mission and destroyed the Natipidad.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Stand by, he's.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Coming aboard, gooding, I pass. Your excellency is enjoying the
best of health.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Yes, I see from the damage and the wounded on
your decks that your fine sheep has been recently election.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I hope that your excellencies had good fortune in the encounter.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We sank to the Matipidad.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
If that's what you mean, you shank?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We did, She's completely destroyed. She is. Oh, then, sir,
I have a letter to give you.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
No, no, no, that is not the one.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
This letter.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Uh hum.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You are aware of the contents of this letter, sir,
I am swer, and I take it from your hesitation
that had I not sent them atived to have given
me the other letter.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
May I ask the contents of that one? I have
no other letter for yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Indeed, and so by this document, I am prohibited from dropping,
anchor or entering into any port of Spanish America, the
Viceroyalty of Perule, the Vice Royalty of Mexico, or the
Captain Generalcy of New Grenada.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Can you explain this most unfriendly behavior on.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The part of the viceroyal I would not presume to
explain my master's action, Sir m. Whatever I think of
this action, it's not compatible with the dignity of a
British officer to bandy words with you about it. Indeed,
I compliments to your master. I will call it no
port on the Spanish man. Please convey to his excellency
my lively sense of gratitude at the courtesy with which
(11:01):
I have been treated, and my pleasure at this further
proof of the good relations between the governments of which
we have the good fortune to be subjects. And now,
so that I have much to attend to, you have
my permission to return to yourself. I remained hope too,
(11:42):
while the lugger filled away for Panama, too busy with
immediate problems to indulge in bitterness against the Spanish. At
a pinch, I could make my stores last out until
I reached Saintandina or Gibraltar. But there was no hope
of facing the storms of Cape Horn with my ship
leaking and jury rigged. Nine still nine fellows, mister Bush,
(12:06):
this place seems very suitable, Ay, sir, Knight is the job.
Lucky we found this channel between the mountain.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Look shirt right ahead. It shadows to up in a peach.
It's golden sand too. It will be excellent for kareemi.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Except for the heat. Uh there'll be a horse kapy
that here, sir. The bounties cut off the breeze and
reflect the sun too. Oh, heat like it out, So
I can't help. You must make the best of it.
We're lucky to will answer the place. And now, mister bust,
time is important.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
We must work like clogreans to make ourselves secured before
the spanning has discovered our hiding place. Called back the
cuttin me anka here while you and I go ashore
to explore.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
W workshire each acte jungle. No human foots in a
trot here, I.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Imagine not, but let me escort keep a sharp look out.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Nevertheless, hi y ah, that's the last of the vegetation.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Another shops scramble up these rocks.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And we shall have a view of the whole bay.
Ah As I thought, mister Bush, these headlines make a
natural fort. Two of our eighteen pounders up here, and
no ships repaired to approach.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Through the channel eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I would the service, but hey, way two telepiece.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Has rigging tackles, and swaying them up here in this
heat should keep them in mused, until we're ready to
lay the ship over and begin the serious work.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
See to it, mister Bush, Serious work, ay, I say.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It was work, work, work, nights and day until we
were all dropping with weirdness. When all repairs of the
ship were done, she had to be loaded again, the
guns brought aboard, and the rigging lee rope and set up.
But when I stood once more on the deck, with
a storm ship beneath me and the broadside which could fire,
I was app again and could snap my fingers at
(14:02):
every spanhead in the Pacific. In all these weeks of labor,
I'd had no time to spare for Lady Barbara, but
her smile as she crossed the deck to me and
showed that I was forgiven for my neglect.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Give me a hand, Captain. I congratulate you on having
achieved so much in so little time. My captain is
modestly comfortable again. You've made the ship like you.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Thank you, Lady Barbara. The man have worked well. It's
uh uh it's happened to me to think that we're
at sea again before night.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You are a very fine sailor, Sir.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I doubt if there's another officer in the King's service
who could have done all that you have on this forehead.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I uh gad you think so, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I've only done my duty.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
England is your debtor. I should try to help see
the chip malag ex actor.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Uh pardonly they they don't have that cast going to
the bottom of the cup.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I remember one those there, m y man.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
He was almost human for a while.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, mister Garrett, let's see at last, DearS, mister Bush,
and homeward bound.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
If the rumor isn't true, right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Lost that lugger twice we met her, and twice she's
brought that news.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What is it now? I wonder ah she's making for us? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Here comes a captain, Captain dat Lugger approaching, Sir.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I hope it's not more trouble, mister Bush.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to remain civil to that
young man. There comes as both.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But then you get on the earth.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I reporte me some more amiable letters.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
No, only to see you as that. I congratulate you
on the amazing difference in your ship.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Since I was lost a ball, how are you able
to affects us repairs? I know you have not been
into poor British neighbor is a text but small heat
of such trifles. As a refit to what to allow
the honor of your visit?
Speaker 9 (16:22):
I wondered, sir, whether you would honor me by visiting
my sheep, and I should be able to show you
some little interest which would demonstrate.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Our ability to continue without your assistance.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
What is the Jewish to ermay? I would prefer to
surprise you, Sir, I would not oblige me. I assure
you I intend not richery. Also, my lugger is within
the range, and your guards could sync it with a
single broad side.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
If you are not back safely within the hour, your
offices may open fire.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Joker, I shall visit the lugger.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Mister Bush send the cutter after me to bring me back.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But I.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Refused to lower my dignity by displaying undue curiosity about
the surprise awaiting me.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
He led the way to the fore deck.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
There and the blinding, scorching sun, chained by the waist
to a ring bolt, with irons on his wrists and ankles, half.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Naked, and hold it filthy.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
You have already had the pleasure of eating his excellencies
on Lana, who calls himself the oil might.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Held Supremo, the half mad fanatic whose rebellion against the
Spanish I had been sent to assist, and against whom
I had been ordered to turn when the Spanish should
become our allies.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Bloodthirsty despot he was. It troubled me to see.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You're not this, Captain Hornblower, that I wear these chains.
It is a way of mine. Do you not think
they set off my fear?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
God? Yes, yes they do.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
We are on our way to Panama, where I shall
mount the front of the world.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
They speak of the gallows awaiting.
Speaker 10 (18:26):
Us on the bastion of the citadel. That will be
the framework of my throne, golden.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
It will be with diamond stars and the dor quals,
both Only else the Primo is left to govern from
his golden throne.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
His front ends. These are chains.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Why am I change him?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Oh? God, is it not?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
He will sometimes struggle and shout for twenty four hours
without starting amusing.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Captain dear don't say cruelty is a shame to you
as a stained your nation.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You mean you're going to hang him mad as he
is with no chance of making his peace with God.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
God, the rebels must your must not, then, for God's sake, hang.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Him is he's torturing.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
We are very glad you have returned, Captain. I hope
you promised surprise was a pleasant one.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Uh oh, a.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Trifle, ma'am. These simple things, you know, amuse these spaniards.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I something something is probably, Captain.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Ma'am, I must go below. Op Day, a.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Ratio hornblower starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels
by C. S. Furnaster, music composed and conducted by Sidney Torns,
produced by Harry Allen Towers
Hold our hands back to quarters. I'm Africa.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Stand by this tabo barry one broadside, didn't worry to
please Captain Bush points on pocket, didn't stop.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Very eyes presting.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Michael Redgrave see as Forester's indomitable Man of the Sea
ratio hornblower.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I have.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Long con.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh my is it?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
See those before and since that memorable time. I do
not remember being so utterly weirdy as I was after
the Nativity had plunged, burning under the surface of the
deep Pacific. The accumulated strain of planning and fighting reaction
had worn me out so that I sank almost training
into a hammer chair on the deck, slept as one drug.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It was the sun lifting care.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Of the horizon and blazing into my face that finally
woke me.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What is it? What good happens? Right? Slept all night?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Good morning, A week's back round about holding our course
close haul uh her morning, mister WoT. It's a miracle
we can hold a course at all.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Look at that rigging splices everywhere and hardly assail without
sortholes in it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yes, sir, she looks a chattered old vagabin.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
But our makeshift Miss Masters still standings over those sticks
are still furrowed and gruvely shot. The sills are back,
the powders and eighty shot half buried in that bit
of tad oak.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Sir, and went, nevertheless, you've done wonders. H.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I might have done more, sir, but the member so exhausted,
I had to send 'em as many below as I.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Could to tell the drouser there's more dead on deck
than living.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I almost fair to gone to that, mister Bush.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Uh, what is the butcher's bill? Pretty heavy? Cracher, I've
cut it on a bit of paper.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Here.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Thirty eight q seventy five wounded mm are missing. They
were in the launch when the they did Dad's shot,
hid it and sunk it all the same.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Uh. You can gonna go mad when they.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Hear your victory. H. This isn't every day that a
frigate sinks a ship of the line.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Our victory, mister Bush, and I shall remember to give
you all the credit you preserve in my report.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, I shall go down and visit the wounded. Do
you better get some rest?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
But what Lady Barbara, I'd forgotten our passenger is.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
She's still in the all up.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
As far as I know, I'd be too busy to see. Well,
my steward will have looked after her. If high born
ladies use.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Their position to force themselves into fighting ships, they must
be prepared to face the consequences.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Tell the truth.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I was a little uneasy at my neglect of Lady
Barbara Wilseley, but I'd had much in my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Below decks in the all up.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The scene was like an inferno, was hot and airless,
and the four flickering oil lamps added their smell to
the stems of builds, powder fumes and sick men. Yeare
seventy five wounded men were crammed together, groaning and sobbing,
gaspheming and vomiting under the care of the incompetent lorry
(04:48):
or my appointed surgeon, when our own certain had died.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Thank God, you've come, sir.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, I've come to make you assume your responsibilities, not
to relieve you of them as the lorry. Now come
round with me and make your report. Tell them this man,
what happens with lady Barbara?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Good morning, captain. I am sponging the poor man's through.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
But tending the wound. It is a man's job. The
filthy work of a hospital is not fit for women.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Now don't do that. Go away from here, go on deck.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Please understand me.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I am not attempting to be noble, but there is
work to be done in the King's service, and if
nobody else can do it, a Wellesley must.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
If one of my.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Brothers can govern India and another can fight the marauders,
I can do my part. Look at this glen. He
has a great splinter of wood under his skin. It
ought to be extracted at one. Yes, certainly, old mister Lorry,
are you ready to extract this splinter?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, ma'am, I don't be a fool man.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
If you will not do it, I will.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I will see that it's done me to be Lady Barbara.
But please go on down.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I should do nothing of the kind. Captain, I am
going to help.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
But oh well as you will, ma'am, allorry worthy your instruments, Wilson, Hudson,
bring a stiff cut of rum and stand by the hole.
Williams will We are going to get that splinter right
of you, or you'll die. And but it's going to
hurt you. The fortnight which elapsed before we ran it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Cape Marler was a grim period.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Unfortunately, the weather held fair. Had we met Gales, I
could hardly have kept my leaking battered ship afloat. Although
some of the men became convalescent under Lady Barbara's care, gangrene,
shock and exhaustion was imposing upon me. The daily task
had sliding hammercrapped bundles.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Overside into the Blue Pacific ladyship's cockle of it, Sir,
how could you spare a moment to stick below, sir?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Stick cart?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Sir Christminster Bush, I thought he was improving, so he was,
Uh in spite of of his surgery. That a lady,
she's worried about him. Now I'm going into it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Oh Captain, I'm so glad you've come. I don't think
he's going to last much.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Sorry, I'd hope that he would be spare him.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He is, he confided.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
His mother.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Uh yeah, forget there was your hnd mother here jolting love.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Give a piculation, Heart, I'm here, Donald, don't it's like field,
poor boy, poor poor.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
A good boy.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Oh God grown to his from the light.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And Lady Barbla come away from prison up on deck
the summit shinning.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
He just looks sad, Captain, it just looks fair. He
was only a lad. He wishpo to r.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I had not been for you there, it would be
many more such scenes, Lady Barbara, if I resented your
presence on this ship, if I h vote that resentment
it anyway, I.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Humbly apologize. Uh ask you to forgive me.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
If it's nothing to the kids. Let us go on
and dick. Wait, Captain, we're in sight of land, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Ma'am, I just en't thring the gounse of Panaman. The
land on the port bow is the Pearl Islands. Oh, boy, you.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Before you run?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Is he a Spanish craft kitten?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yes, Captain Manuel Diaz commanding. If it was the same
locker that brought me the news that Spain was.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Now our ally and your letter requesting a passage on this.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Ship, Oh, it seems one hundred years ago instead of
for a few weeks. And now here we are almost
back in Panama, which I thought never to see again.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I would prefer not to see it, ma'am, especially if
the yellow fever still rages there yet. If I do
not refit in provision, ship will sink under my feet.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
She's setting a boat over there. It looks like the
same officer we met before.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I recognize, well, he should be pleased if we've accomplished
our mission and destroyed the Natipidad.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Stand by, he's.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Coming aboard, gooding, I pass. Your excellency is enjoying the
best of health.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Yes, I see from the damage and the wounded on
your decks that your fine sheep has been recently election.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I hope that your excellencies had good fortune in the encounter.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We sank to the Matipidad.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
If that's what you mean, you shank?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We did, She's completely destroyed. She is. Oh, then, sir,
I have a letter to give you.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
No, no, no, that is not the one.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
This letter.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Uh hum.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You are aware of the contents of this letter, sir,
I am swer, and I take it from your hesitation
that had I not sent them atived to have given
me the other letter.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
May I ask the contents of that one? I have
no other letter for yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Indeed, and so by this document, I am prohibited from dropping,
anchor or entering into any port of Spanish America, the
Viceroyalty of Perule, the Vice Royalty of Mexico, or the
Captain Generalcy of New Grenada.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Can you explain this most unfriendly behavior on.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The part of the viceroyal I would not presume to
explain my master's action, Sir m. Whatever I think of
this action, it's not compatible with the dignity of a
British officer to bandy words with you about it. Indeed,
I compliments to your master. I will call it no
port on the Spanish man. Please convey to his excellency
my lively sense of gratitude at the courtesy with which
(11:01):
I have been treated, and my pleasure at this further
proof of the good relations between the governments of which
we have the good fortune to be subjects. And now,
so that I have much to attend to, you have
my permission to return to yourself. I remained hope too,
(11:42):
while the lugger filled away for Panama, too busy with
immediate problems to indulge in bitterness against the Spanish. At
a pinch, I could make my stores last out until
I reached Saintandina or Gibraltar. But there was no hope
of facing the storms of Cape Horn with my ship
leaking and jury rigged. Nine still nine fellows, mister Bush,
(12:06):
this place seems very suitable, Ay, sir, Knight is the job.
Lucky we found this channel between the mountain.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Look shirt right ahead. It shadows to up in a peach.
It's golden sand too. It will be excellent for kareemi.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Except for the heat. Uh there'll be a horse kapy
that here, sir. The bounties cut off the breeze and
reflect the sun too. Oh, heat like it out, So
I can't help. You must make the best of it.
We're lucky to will answer the place. And now, mister bust,
time is important.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
We must work like clogreans to make ourselves secured before
the spanning has discovered our hiding place. Called back the
cuttin me anka here while you and I go ashore
to explore.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
W workshire each acte jungle. No human foots in a
trot here, I.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Imagine not, but let me escort keep a sharp look out.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Nevertheless, hi y ah, that's the last of the vegetation.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Another shops scramble up these rocks.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And we shall have a view of the whole bay.
Ah As I thought, mister Bush, these headlines make a
natural fort. Two of our eighteen pounders up here, and
no ships repaired to approach.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Through the channel eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I would the service, but hey, way two telepiece.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Has rigging tackles, and swaying them up here in this
heat should keep them in mused, until we're ready to
lay the ship over and begin the serious work.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
See to it, mister Bush, Serious work, ay, I say.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It was work, work, work, nights and day until we
were all dropping with weirdness. When all repairs of the
ship were done, she had to be loaded again, the
guns brought aboard, and the rigging lee rope and set up.
But when I stood once more on the deck, with
a storm ship beneath me and the broadside which could fire,
I was app again and could snap my fingers at
(14:02):
every spanhead in the Pacific. In all these weeks of labor,
I'd had no time to spare for Lady Barbara, but
her smile as she crossed the deck to me and
showed that I was forgiven for my neglect.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Give me a hand, Captain. I congratulate you on having
achieved so much in so little time. My captain is
modestly comfortable again. You've made the ship like you.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Thank you, Lady Barbara. The man have worked well. It's
uh uh it's happened to me to think that we're
at sea again before night.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You are a very fine sailor, Sir.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I doubt if there's another officer in the King's service
who could have done all that you have on this forehead.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I uh gad you think so, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I've only done my duty.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
England is your debtor. I should try to help see
the chip malag ex actor.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Uh pardonly they they don't have that cast going to
the bottom of the cup.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I remember one those there, m y man.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
He was almost human for a while.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Well, mister Garrett, let's see at last, DearS, mister Bush,
and homeward bound.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
If the rumor isn't true, right.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Lost that lugger twice we met her, and twice she's
brought that news.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What is it now? I wonder ah she's making for us? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Here comes a captain, Captain dat Lugger approaching, Sir.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I hope it's not more trouble, mister Bush.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to remain civil to that
young man. There comes as both.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But then you get on the earth.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I reporte me some more amiable letters.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
No, only to see you as that. I congratulate you
on the amazing difference in your ship.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Since I was lost a ball, how are you able
to affects us repairs? I know you have not been
into poor British neighbor is a text but small heat
of such trifles. As a refit to what to allow
the honor of your visit?
Speaker 9 (16:22):
I wondered, sir, whether you would honor me by visiting
my sheep, and I should be able to show you
some little interest which would demonstrate.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Our ability to continue without your assistance.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
What is the Jewish to ermay? I would prefer to
surprise you, Sir, I would not oblige me. I assure
you I intend not richery. Also, my lugger is within
the range, and your guards could sync it with a
single broad side.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
If you are not back safely within the hour, your
offices may open fire.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Joker, I shall visit the lugger.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Mister Bush send the cutter after me to bring me back.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But I.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Refused to lower my dignity by displaying undue curiosity about
the surprise awaiting me.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
He led the way to the fore deck.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
There and the blinding, scorching sun, chained by the waist
to a ring bolt, with irons on his wrists and ankles, half.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Naked, and hold it filthy.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
You have already had the pleasure of eating his excellencies
on Lana, who calls himself the oil might.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Held Supremo, the half mad fanatic whose rebellion against the
Spanish I had been sent to assist, and against whom
I had been ordered to turn when the Spanish should
become our allies.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Bloodthirsty despot he was. It troubled me to see.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You're not this, Captain Hornblower, that I wear these chains.
It is a way of mine. Do you not think
they set off my fear?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
God? Yes, yes they do.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
We are on our way to Panama, where I shall
mount the front of the world.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
They speak of the gallows awaiting.
Speaker 10 (18:26):
Us on the bastion of the citadel. That will be
the framework of my throne, golden.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
It will be with diamond stars and the dor quals,
both Only else the Primo is left to govern from
his golden throne.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
His front ends. These are chains.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Why am I change him?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Oh? God, is it not?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
He will sometimes struggle and shout for twenty four hours
without starting amusing.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Captain dear don't say cruelty is a shame to you
as a stained your nation.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You mean you're going to hang him mad as he
is with no chance of making his peace with God.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
God, the rebels must your must not, then, for God's sake, hang.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Him is he's torturing.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
We are very glad you have returned, Captain. I hope
you promised surprise was a pleasant one.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Uh oh, a.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Trifle, ma'am. These simple things, you know, amuse these spaniards.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I something something is probably, Captain.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Ma'am, I must go below. Op Day, a.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Ratio hornblower starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels
by C. S. Furnaster, music composed and conducted by Sidney Torns,
produced by Harry Allen Towers
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