Anita Anand

Yeah.

It is factually correct.

But you've got now sort of this island with the flag of St.

George fluttering by choice of the islanders.

The man, again, who is representative of the British interest, Nathaniel Courtauld.

Tell us about him.

He's a man who keeps his surviving crew's spirits up by giving them regular doses of Arak and reading from the Bible regularly.

It's quite an English thing to do, isn't it?

Cheers and cheers.

I mean, when you say a very long time, we're talking 1,540 days.

I mean, that's just unthinkable.

We're going to go to a break soon.

But, you know, with conditions getting worse and worse for Courtauld and his men, there is a glimmer of hope at one point, isn't there, Giles?

That, you know, the siege that the Dutch have so successfully laid around Ron might be broken with some supplies.

What's on this sort of mercy mission that could have turned everything around for them?

Not just food, 600 jars of Arak, we're told.

You'd be kind of beside yourself.

But if you're getting excited for the poor men looking at those sails across the horizon, join us after the break to see whether this ends up in an enormous party on the little island of Run.

Or not.

Welcome back.