Giles Milton
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1,435 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
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Keeping the men entertained and keeping boredom at bay was a very difficult thing to do.
In fact, the captain of the ship on which Nathaniel Courtauld sailed, William Keeling, he's one of my favourite characters in this entire story, actually, because he performed...
Hamlet.
He got all his men dressed up in costumes and everything and performed Hamlet on the mangrove shores of West Africa when they were caught in the doldrums.
Yeah, and he thought, well, this will keep them entertained.
So this was, yeah, they had to keep the men entertained.
They have to keep boredom at bay.
And so Nathaniel Courtauld, when he arrives on Run Island, he's faced with a problem here.
Run Island is...
it should be pointed out, is a very, very small island.
It's a couple of miles wide, a mile or so long, and they're going to be stuck on this island for a very long time.
So Arak, this fiery alcohol, is going to play a very important role in their lives as they struggle to survive on this island.
Yes.
So the Dutch, as I said, they control the other five islands in the Banda Group, leaving run as this isolated sort of outpost, if you like.
The Dutch have dozens of ships in the Banda Islands at time.
They have thousands of soldiers.
And so this is a classic sort of David versus Goliath struggle that's going to take place.
But Nathaniel Courtauld on Run Island has one thing in his favour.
And that is that Run Island, most of Run Island is surrounded by extremely high precipitous cliffs that are almost impossible to scale.
And there's only one section of the island
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