Dan Snow
speaker
15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's so exciting doing a podcast right here where it all happened.
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Give me a sense just quickly what was going on at the height of the siege here in 1565.
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What would you have seen around us now?
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Enemy really all around us 360 degrees?
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Let's go back to the beginning.
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Malta, it's a very small place and yet it plays a big part in history.
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We seem to hear about it a lot.
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Why, talking about the geography, why does Malta matter?
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So Sicily, 80 kilometers to the north and North Africa,
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very close and then it's amazing it's almost the same distance is it from from gibraltar to well gaza to the sewers canal today it's pretty much exactly in the middle isn't it
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And then Valletta, which we're looking out on now, the harbour is an amazing natural harbour, which is quite a rare thing.
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You can get sailing here and no matter which direction the wind's coming from, you're going to be okay.
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Tell me about these knights.
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Who are these people and why are they running Malta?
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So people have heard the Knights Templar, the Knights who were providing security for pilgrims, the Knights Hospitaller, what they're doing the same thing, but particularly around healthcare.
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Well, they kicked out of the Holy Land.
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The famous Siege of Acre, amazing, that we've covered on the podcast.
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And then they end up in Rhodes.
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