Marc Fennell
speaker
1,887 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Then seventeen years later, the Pompeians, they're really still rebuilding.
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And at that point, they've got some pretty peculiar ideas about where these earthquakes have actually come from.
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And to be fair to them, it's not like it was obvious.
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So if you did the roughly five-hour trek from Pompeii to the very top of Vesuvius, you would see absolutely nothing.
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Like there's no telltale rumbling pit of lava up there.
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It had been dormant for all of living memory.
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The Bombayans only had two real clues as to what was about to come.
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And the other clue was just how fertile the soil in the area was.
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But so you're not.
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What created that giver of life would become the taker of life.
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One day in autumn in 79 AD.
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At midday.
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Something shoots high into the sky.
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Soon huge chunks of rock, this pumice, starts falling from the sky.
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Can you imagine the terror of these raining missiles from the sky shooting all around you?
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Meanwhile in Herculaneum, this nearby harbour town that was wedged between Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, people are escaping by boat.
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We are talking here about a wall of darkness moving faster than a speeding car.
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It's not made of lava, we're talking about burning ash and rock and gas so hot that the air itself becomes lethal.
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Before you can even understand what is happening, it is already over.
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Back in Pompeii, the sky has darkened.
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