Clarke Peters
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Clarke Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
On the morning of the new king's coronation, Franklin stands amidst the London masses.
It's a novel experience for someone from the colonies.
Not even George Whitefield in Philadelphia can pull an audience like this.
At length, King George and his wife, Queen Charlotte, make their way from St.
James's Palace to Westminster Abbey.
They are carried the whole way on sedan chairs.
A vast train of invited people walks behind them.
Franklin scans the procession.
He's looking for a special person, his adult son, William, who is now a law student in London.
Benjamin Franklin, child of a Boston craftsman, has landed his family at the epicenter of imperial power.
It's a truly astonishing rise.
Franklin is delighted with his new king.
Most Americans are.
Franklin shares King George's misgivings about the men in government.
He's troubled by conversations with certain elder statesmen.
one informs Franklin that London calls the shots in the colonies.
Their little legislatures, their ideas about self-government, that's all irrelevant.
Franklin is stunned, as he often is when talking to Londoners about America.
Britain's ideas about itself and its empire are crucial to our story.
But superpower status doesn't come cheap.
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