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 (00:06):
I'm out, can't buy let teb a better one?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Broadside intu it to please Captain Bush one to some
pocket it's not already?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Is that a Michael Redgrave see as Forester's indominable Man
of the Sea Oratio Hornblower.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm old now, but my past still lives on in memory,
(01:59):
and my flightish blood still stirs within me at the
recollection of the problems which faced me as we rode
slowly into.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The maritime port, slipping quietly down the river disguised as
fishermen was one thing.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But to enter this busy port in our home made uniforms.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
As Dutch customs officials, and to plan the stealing of
a craft in which we could make our escape to
see was quite another. As we rode casually along under
the eyes of the dock workers and lunges, my pulse
was high, and the palms of my hands sweating. I
forced myself to remain impassive and to sit with careless
(02:37):
ease in the stern sheets.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Noisier chain gangs, Mister Bush unloading grain, military, criminals, deserters
and gone. Now that the French no longer use galleys,
they put their criminals to work in the docks.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
A big parts.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But I ain't that the blue ins in underneath that
tricolor on the cutter yonder, it's you're.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Right by heaven brown. Its tattered and faded, but it's
the blue ens and rhyre right enough.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It went like the fence flaunting their petted triumphs for
months to the lovely little ship, their speed and seaworthiness
in those lines, mister Bush. Each So which of endorser
I know it anywhere? Ten gun cutter caught by a
flats briget last year. She's ready for sea too. We'll
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take a closer look at our bran lay us alongside
that key over there. Excuse me, Sip, surely you weren't thinking.
I mean, those cutters carry a crew of sixty men,
so of us could never work her.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh I knew that what Bush said was true.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I knew more The estuary of the Loire, which lay
between us and the sea, was tricky in the extreme.
For fear of raids, all boys and navigation marks had
been removed. Without a pilot, we can never find our
way through thirty five miles of shoals without going aground. Besides,
there were batteries that I am berth and and there's
(04:06):
are much as I should have liked to steal the
which have endor and sailed her to England.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
The thing was impossible.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I walked up the steps of the key and forced
myself to swagger. Bush's wooden leg came tapping up behind
me jaw. A passing group of soldiers saluted my smart
uniform and the star of the Legion of Honor, which
had been lent to me by the Comte de Grasse.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I stopped and looked at the clatter from the lambward side.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Holding an anchor watch. Two hens and a master's mate.
The rest and another's are on shore. Look sir, here's
another American chip coming in. He's just eating into.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
The key, infuriating.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
What's the use of all the coastal blockade If neutral
ships can sail in a night with impunity.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Wheat is officially noncont.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Them, but it's more important than arms in many ways. Hello,
he's seven coming ashore, and then your arrivals here Sevili,
Look at him. It's the pilot if if he the palot.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Bush, I believe I've got an idea.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Listen, follow me, and don't say a word, and I'm
going to speak to.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The pilot.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
One moment, monsieur, if you please, I'm a colonel of customs.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I have some questions to ask you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Will you kindly accompany me to my ship for a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yes, we chez your ship, Colonel. Over here, this cutter
yonder this way, if you please, you are in you
comment to this porte. Thank you, colonel.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I was transferred here yesterday from Amsterdam. Here we are
after you up the gang. Yet the mate of the
Witch of Endor showed no particular surprise at our arrival.
The evidence knew the pilot by sight, and my uniform
and my assumed confidence deceived him. I told him that
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I wish to examine one of his charts. Showed us
down the companion to the after cabin without a word.
The securing of the two men of the crew took
but a moment. The sight of my pistols is nothing itself. Then,
leaving Bush and Bran to watch the prisoners, I put
away my pistols and hurried back to the key.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Sergeants, bring a party down to my ship. There's work
for them there, Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Colonel, keep those chains still and listen, listen, if you'll
do what I order, I can set you free a
quiet I'll be an end of beatings in slavery.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm an English officer. I'm going to sail this ship
to England.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
In England, you'll be rewarded and the new life will
begin for you. Now I'm going to run pass on
your chain. Now, sit still, Sit still.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Make no noise.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Until you've told what to do, You're free. Any man
moves of his pedal unless he's ordered to do so.
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From the moment of the sudden impulse which had begun
my desperate plan, till the chain slaves were feed, barely fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Minutes had elapsed.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
In that time my prospect of escape had increased a hundredfold,
But the greatest peridle still their head. I had no
mind to be taken, and shart as a spy. I
sent Brown to our little boat, which still lay at
the quayside, and he brought back the parcel containing my
own clothes. My own uniform coat was sadly crumpled, and
the gold lace was bent and broken, but there was
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a strange comfort in darning it once again. I was
myself again, And should we be retaken, the wearing of
a British naval officers Tunic would protect us from the
fate of his spies.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It was time for action again.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I took a blaying thin from the rail and walked
slowly to where the sullen pilot sat on a hatch.
I weighed the pin meditatively in my hands. Sir, I
desire you to pilot this ship out to sea, But
no I cannot, No, no, my duty, my poor fish on.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No. I know we're going to start now.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We can't give instructions or not as your shoes, but
this I assure you, Monsieur. The moment this ship touches
grand A, beat your head into a pace with.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
This belaying Then I I w way Monsieur bron mesh
into the rail lab. Then we can start Harder is
the bush. When to take the tiller, if.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You please my eyes? And then Brian, listen, we've got
a raw crew. We shall have to put the ropes
in their hands, cast off the warps. The push of
the tide was swinging the cutter away.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
From the key.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The warps were carved off, and Brown ran briskly among
our wretched crew, leading them to the halliards and showing
them upon which ropes to haul.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
At my order, manful and jib rose.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The sails flapped, bell in slapped again, suddenly filled and
cut her chain from the dead to a live thing.
She healed affection, and I heard the musical chuckle of
the water at her bows as her forefoot bubbled through
the water.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
In three sides.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I was at the pilot's side, belaying pin in hands
a halfwood mashiell keep for it, white keep went Would
you quite for your hell.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mister Bush. We're taking the stoppet channel, Peter, and keep
for that. You must have a hand up the dead Musha.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It is necessary to take sounds, or I can spare
no hands much.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You'll have to do your work without sounding. And remember
my promise still holds good. I have no mercy these cords, monsieur.
They are tight. Good gives you awake.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Loosen your cords when we are safely at sea off Motier,
and not before. It is necess having to cross to
the other side of the estuary. Here the channel narrows
on the side you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
May have to go about. Don't tie me. Don't there fishing.
Do you think your gary?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I think we can do it, cloth holter. She sails
like a third. The tides helping too, mister Bush. Ah, Yes,
she's making a cross.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well done, Let her come up a little hmmm beautiful.
All right, Brown, we don't need to go about. How's
the pard? Sure? Is he behaving? Yes? Up to now,
I think the set of the ballet pin was more
effective than a pistol.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Whether I could have broke myself a clever helpless man,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
A lot would have defended on it. Yes, all our
lives depend on it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I started this venture as the bush top of nothing
to achieve success. We have a long way to go
before we are safe. If you'll excuse me saying, Zoser,
this is about the most amazing thing even you've ever
done to recapture an English kid and say that out
under the very nose of the frogs.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But I I'd never have believe it possible, and the
childn't down here, mister Bush.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Hard to keep that firmily in mind.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
We'll congratulate ourselves when we are safe. God see you
and it'll stop us.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Noser, Why is this win hour?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Is just for? Oh? What's that seems to be? Alone? Brown?
I'll go in then and see what's done.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
A stand.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Surely there could have been some crew aboard that we
didn't find.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Look at her.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
If the printer's below, they slip down as things and
they're trying to attack the attention by waving and yelling
through the porthole. Can I take the men to deal
with themselves? Will not be necessarily brown unless my ears
and mistaken. They're coming to us and there's something to
say person they've boy the way they were tried up.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Man a, theseusles are heavy.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You can find and make no.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
More noise than is necessary.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Unless these prisoners.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Are over powered, we are lost. You will go back
to slavery or death.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's the worship remainder the piller fry take my Christmas
lesure you with my sword. I took no part in
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the fight, but stood beside the bush with drawn sword.
Had the tiller been went to him and the cutter beats,
we should indeed have been lost.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But my participation was my message.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Weak and wretched as our chain gang crew were, they
dempsed the hope of freedom and were prepared to fight
to the death to retain it. With playing pins and
bare fits. I fell upon the four attackers, and the
struggle was free. This time I personally supervised for tying
up of the men and had them laid out on
deck where they could be watched. Then all hands were
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sent back to stations and I run down the estuary
to the sea, and freedom continued as the night closed down.
I was what the wings dive at the dawn? Yes,
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can't make out where we are.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And this missed.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I expect the son of clear it when he was up. Presently,
that's why Moutier to port and the Mainlanders are stern there.
I caught a glimpse of the semaphore station ten minutes ago.
Only the wind that held for half an hour more.
We should have been safe. Pibly looks in pretty bad
shapester m so do you, mister boosh? It's twenty four hours,
as any of us had in his sleep.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Come to that. However, I'll keep my promise and cut
him loose. There your freezer, Oh my arms? What's Sit
down on the deck and rub him. You won't feel better. Presently,
it's no good, sir, I can't hold the course. There's
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no breeze at all.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Blast.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The title drifts to seeing under the big guns.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Hung they got those slaves on deck there set them
to work with the sweeps. Ah, sir, here, you come here,
come here, can't right beside me? Now, come on, you're
going to help me to train this guy.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I'm not pushing my own I cannot fight with my
fellow countryman's the bush have the kindness to toss me
that blaye?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, none shat?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
What am I to do?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Lay hold of that train tackle? Come on now, come on,
run of that, oh beauty, sir. Here they got them
right up among the ars.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Waits a ready, now, betty God, mister bush, Lay a
course so that I can keep that leading boat.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
On the fire. Ahi eye.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Pursuing boats creeping over the sea showed no sign of
being dismayed by my bom apartment. There were big ones
carrying at least fifty men each. If only one and
ranged alongside, it would be the end of us. The
leading boat meant end a course which could cut ours
perhaps a mile ahead. I fired again and again, working
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at the gun till my shirt stuck to me with sweat.
The powder grains irritated my skin. If I could see
no result.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You must have hit that dive, sir. I didn't see
any splash of the shot. Oh, it's growing as hard
as ever.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
How good heavens is it possible that a six pounder
can have no effect? I thought herself.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Look, she's singing around, she stings it into the others.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
She's sinking, sir.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
The variation in each ball, each charge with fider, made
it impossible to fire two shots alike.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I kept grimly on, so.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I felt that my back and heart would break. The
monotonous creak of the sweeps and the chanting of brown
continued like a submerged accompaniment. Now the second bird turned
and began to rush under double bank doors, straight for
our ship. I stared through the gun side straight at
its bires, jerked the lanyard and fired, even.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
As I watched.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
The bows of the opened like a fan.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
A shot had.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Struck her right on the stem at water level. Her
bars lifted as the strake spread wide, then fell again.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
The water poured in. Gun all deep. I think they've
had enough.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Sure the last boat is turning away to pick up
the survivor.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think I'm second third of finding that damn pop gun.
Rather use a bow and arrow. Come on, pull, we're
not other danger yet. Two three around, Thank you? Even
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one hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Years since we had a braiser.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yes, but we're making progress, mister Bush.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
The mainland has lost now and now Motier is far
behind him. Do you think we're safe now?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Said no, we're far from.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
The safe, aching in every bone and dizzy.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
With lack of sleep, I moved and spoke as they're
in a dream.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Somewhere to the northwest, I knew lay the British fleet,
which maintained an unceasing watch over breast.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I had laid the cutter on a course which would
take us.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Out to the fleet eventually, or if we missed the
fleet and found a wind, I could say, right round
to England and a scaping English captain retaking a captured
ship of war practically single handed and fighting his way
out of a French port.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
To bring her home.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
There's never been anything like it, said, never will be again.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But I was not listening.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The mention of England had renewed all my old doubts
and fears. If I returned, I understand my trial for
the loss of the Sutherland. If I were found guilty
of not having done my utmost in the presence of
the enemy, there was only one penalty, death and then.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
A raise a praise by Sunday Army. Only wish there
a praise one two real fast when I thought, all
hands for the Hellads, set every sticks and sailor, we're
find fingers.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Ratio.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels by C. S.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Forester.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, produced by Harry
Allen Towers,
I'm out, can't buy let teb a better one?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Broadside intu it to please Captain Bush one to some
pocket it's not already?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Is that a Michael Redgrave see as Forester's indominable Man
of the Sea Oratio Hornblower.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm old now, but my past still lives on in memory,
(01:59):
and my flightish blood still stirs within me at the
recollection of the problems which faced me as we rode
slowly into.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The maritime port, slipping quietly down the river disguised as
fishermen was one thing.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
But to enter this busy port in our home made uniforms.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
As Dutch customs officials, and to plan the stealing of
a craft in which we could make our escape to
see was quite another. As we rode casually along under
the eyes of the dock workers and lunges, my pulse
was high, and the palms of my hands sweating. I
forced myself to remain impassive and to sit with careless
(02:37):
ease in the stern sheets.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Noisier chain gangs, Mister Bush unloading grain, military, criminals, deserters
and gone. Now that the French no longer use galleys,
they put their criminals to work in the docks.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
A big parts.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But I ain't that the blue ins in underneath that
tricolor on the cutter yonder, it's you're.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Right by heaven brown. Its tattered and faded, but it's
the blue ens and rhyre right enough.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It went like the fence flaunting their petted triumphs for
months to the lovely little ship, their speed and seaworthiness
in those lines, mister Bush. Each So which of endorser
I know it anywhere? Ten gun cutter caught by a
flats briget last year. She's ready for sea too. We'll
(03:24):
take a closer look at our bran lay us alongside
that key over there. Excuse me, Sip, surely you weren't thinking.
I mean, those cutters carry a crew of sixty men,
so of us could never work her.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh I knew that what Bush said was true.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I knew more The estuary of the Loire, which lay
between us and the sea, was tricky in the extreme.
For fear of raids, all boys and navigation marks had
been removed. Without a pilot, we can never find our
way through thirty five miles of shoals without going aground. Besides,
there were batteries that I am berth and and there's
(04:06):
are much as I should have liked to steal the
which have endor and sailed her to England.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
The thing was impossible.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I walked up the steps of the key and forced
myself to swagger. Bush's wooden leg came tapping up behind
me jaw. A passing group of soldiers saluted my smart
uniform and the star of the Legion of Honor, which
had been lent to me by the Comte de Grasse.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I stopped and looked at the clatter from the lambward side.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Holding an anchor watch. Two hens and a master's mate.
The rest and another's are on shore. Look sir, here's
another American chip coming in. He's just eating into.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
The key, infuriating.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
What's the use of all the coastal blockade If neutral
ships can sail in a night with impunity.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Wheat is officially noncont.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Them, but it's more important than arms in many ways. Hello,
he's seven coming ashore, and then your arrivals here Sevili,
Look at him. It's the pilot if if he the palot.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Bush, I believe I've got an idea.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Listen, follow me, and don't say a word, and I'm
going to speak to.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The pilot.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
One moment, monsieur, if you please, I'm a colonel of customs.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I have some questions to ask you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Will you kindly accompany me to my ship for a moment.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yes, we chez your ship, Colonel. Over here, this cutter
yonder this way, if you please, you are in you
comment to this porte. Thank you, colonel.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I was transferred here yesterday from Amsterdam. Here we are
after you up the gang. Yet the mate of the
Witch of Endor showed no particular surprise at our arrival.
The evidence knew the pilot by sight, and my uniform
and my assumed confidence deceived him. I told him that
(05:57):
I wish to examine one of his charts. Showed us
down the companion to the after cabin without a word.
The securing of the two men of the crew took
but a moment. The sight of my pistols is nothing itself. Then,
leaving Bush and Bran to watch the prisoners, I put
away my pistols and hurried back to the key.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Sergeants, bring a party down to my ship. There's work
for them there, Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Colonel, keep those chains still and listen, listen, if you'll
do what I order, I can set you free a
quiet I'll be an end of beatings in slavery.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm an English officer. I'm going to sail this ship
to England.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
In England, you'll be rewarded and the new life will
begin for you. Now I'm going to run pass on
your chain. Now, sit still, Sit still.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Make no noise.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Until you've told what to do, You're free. Any man
moves of his pedal unless he's ordered to do so.
(07:27):
From the moment of the sudden impulse which had begun
my desperate plan, till the chain slaves were feed, barely fifteen.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Minutes had elapsed.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
In that time my prospect of escape had increased a hundredfold,
But the greatest peridle still their head. I had no
mind to be taken, and shart as a spy. I
sent Brown to our little boat, which still lay at
the quayside, and he brought back the parcel containing my
own clothes. My own uniform coat was sadly crumpled, and
the gold lace was bent and broken, but there was
(07:56):
a strange comfort in darning it once again. I was
myself again, And should we be retaken, the wearing of
a British naval officers Tunic would protect us from the
fate of his spies.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It was time for action again.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I took a blaying thin from the rail and walked
slowly to where the sullen pilot sat on a hatch.
I weighed the pin meditatively in my hands. Sir, I
desire you to pilot this ship out to sea, But
no I cannot, No, no, my duty, my poor fish on.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No. I know we're going to start now.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We can't give instructions or not as your shoes, but
this I assure you, Monsieur. The moment this ship touches
grand A, beat your head into a pace with.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
This belaying Then I I w way Monsieur bron mesh
into the rail lab. Then we can start Harder is
the bush. When to take the tiller, if.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You please my eyes? And then Brian, listen, we've got
a raw crew. We shall have to put the ropes
in their hands, cast off the warps. The push of
the tide was swinging the cutter away.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
From the key.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
The warps were carved off, and Brown ran briskly among
our wretched crew, leading them to the halliards and showing
them upon which ropes to haul.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
At my order, manful and jib rose.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The sails flapped, bell in slapped again, suddenly filled and
cut her chain from the dead to a live thing.
She healed affection, and I heard the musical chuckle of
the water at her bows as her forefoot bubbled through
the water.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
In three sides.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I was at the pilot's side, belaying pin in hands
a halfwood mashiell keep for it, white keep went Would
you quite for your hell.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mister Bush. We're taking the stoppet channel, Peter, and keep
for that. You must have a hand up the dead Musha.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It is necessary to take sounds, or I can spare
no hands much.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You'll have to do your work without sounding. And remember
my promise still holds good. I have no mercy these cords, monsieur.
They are tight. Good gives you awake.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Loosen your cords when we are safely at sea off Motier,
and not before. It is necess having to cross to
the other side of the estuary. Here the channel narrows
on the side you.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
May have to go about. Don't tie me. Don't there fishing.
Do you think your gary?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I think we can do it, cloth holter. She sails
like a third. The tides helping too, mister Bush. Ah, Yes,
she's making a cross.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well done, Let her come up a little hmmm beautiful.
All right, Brown, we don't need to go about. How's
the pard? Sure? Is he behaving? Yes? Up to now,
I think the set of the ballet pin was more
effective than a pistol.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Whether I could have broke myself a clever helpless man,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
A lot would have defended on it. Yes, all our
lives depend on it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I started this venture as the bush top of nothing
to achieve success. We have a long way to go
before we are safe. If you'll excuse me saying, Zoser,
this is about the most amazing thing even you've ever
done to recapture an English kid and say that out
under the very nose of the frogs.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But I I'd never have believe it possible, and the
childn't down here, mister Bush.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Hard to keep that firmily in mind.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
We'll congratulate ourselves when we are safe. God see you
and it'll stop us.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Noser, Why is this win hour?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Is just for? Oh? What's that seems to be? Alone? Brown?
I'll go in then and see what's done.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
A stand.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Surely there could have been some crew aboard that we
didn't find.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Look at her.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
If the printer's below, they slip down as things and
they're trying to attack the attention by waving and yelling
through the porthole. Can I take the men to deal
with themselves? Will not be necessarily brown unless my ears
and mistaken. They're coming to us and there's something to
say person they've boy the way they were tried up.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Man a, theseusles are heavy.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You can find and make no.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
More noise than is necessary.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Unless these prisoners.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Are over powered, we are lost. You will go back
to slavery or death.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It's the worship remainder the piller fry take my Christmas
lesure you with my sword. I took no part in
(13:02):
the fight, but stood beside the bush with drawn sword.
Had the tiller been went to him and the cutter beats,
we should indeed have been lost.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But my participation was my message.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Weak and wretched as our chain gang crew were, they
dempsed the hope of freedom and were prepared to fight
to the death to retain it. With playing pins and
bare fits. I fell upon the four attackers, and the
struggle was free. This time I personally supervised for tying
up of the men and had them laid out on
deck where they could be watched. Then all hands were
(13:34):
sent back to stations and I run down the estuary
to the sea, and freedom continued as the night closed down.
I was what the wings dive at the dawn? Yes,
(13:55):
can't make out where we are.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And this missed.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I expect the son of clear it when he was up. Presently,
that's why Moutier to port and the Mainlanders are stern there.
I caught a glimpse of the semaphore station ten minutes ago.
Only the wind that held for half an hour more.
We should have been safe. Pibly looks in pretty bad
shapester m so do you, mister boosh? It's twenty four hours,
as any of us had in his sleep.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Come to that. However, I'll keep my promise and cut
him loose. There your freezer, Oh my arms? What's Sit
down on the deck and rub him. You won't feel better. Presently,
it's no good, sir, I can't hold the course. There's
(14:39):
no breeze at all.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Blast.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
The title drifts to seeing under the big guns.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Hung they got those slaves on deck there set them
to work with the sweeps. Ah, sir, here, you come here,
come here, can't right beside me? Now, come on, you're
going to help me to train this guy.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I'm not pushing my own I cannot fight with my
fellow countryman's the bush have the kindness to toss me
that blaye?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, none shat?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
What am I to do?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Lay hold of that train tackle? Come on now, come on,
run of that, oh beauty, sir. Here they got them
right up among the ars.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Waits a ready, now, betty God, mister bush, Lay a
course so that I can keep that leading boat.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
On the fire. Ahi eye.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Pursuing boats creeping over the sea showed no sign of
being dismayed by my bom apartment. There were big ones
carrying at least fifty men each. If only one and
ranged alongside, it would be the end of us. The
leading boat meant end a course which could cut ours
perhaps a mile ahead. I fired again and again, working
(15:51):
at the gun till my shirt stuck to me with sweat.
The powder grains irritated my skin. If I could see
no result.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You must have hit that dive, sir. I didn't see
any splash of the shot. Oh, it's growing as hard
as ever.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
How good heavens is it possible that a six pounder
can have no effect? I thought herself.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Look, she's singing around, she stings it into the others.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
She's sinking, sir.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
The variation in each ball, each charge with fider, made
it impossible to fire two shots alike.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I kept grimly on, so.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I felt that my back and heart would break. The
monotonous creak of the sweeps and the chanting of brown
continued like a submerged accompaniment. Now the second bird turned
and began to rush under double bank doors, straight for
our ship. I stared through the gun side straight at
its bires, jerked the lanyard and fired, even.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
As I watched.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
The bows of the opened like a fan.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
A shot had.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Struck her right on the stem at water level. Her
bars lifted as the strake spread wide, then fell again.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
The water poured in. Gun all deep. I think they've
had enough.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Sure the last boat is turning away to pick up
the survivor.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think I'm second third of finding that damn pop gun.
Rather use a bow and arrow. Come on, pull, we're
not other danger yet. Two three around, Thank you? Even
(18:07):
one hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Years since we had a braiser.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yes, but we're making progress, mister Bush.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
The mainland has lost now and now Motier is far
behind him. Do you think we're safe now?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Said no, we're far from.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
The safe, aching in every bone and dizzy.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
With lack of sleep, I moved and spoke as they're
in a dream.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Somewhere to the northwest, I knew lay the British fleet,
which maintained an unceasing watch over breast.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I had laid the cutter on a course which would
take us.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Out to the fleet eventually, or if we missed the
fleet and found a wind, I could say, right round
to England and a scaping English captain retaking a captured
ship of war practically single handed and fighting his way
out of a French port.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
To bring her home.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
There's never been anything like it, said, never will be again.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But I was not listening.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The mention of England had renewed all my old doubts
and fears. If I returned, I understand my trial for
the loss of the Sutherland. If I were found guilty
of not having done my utmost in the presence of
the enemy, there was only one penalty, death and then.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
A raise a praise by Sunday Army. Only wish there
a praise one two real fast when I thought, all
hands for the Hellads, set every sticks and sailor, we're
find fingers.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Ratio.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels by C. S.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Forester.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, produced by Harry
Allen Towers,
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