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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The sun is now blocked out by the ash, spewing out of the volcano.
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There's blackened skies, the air around them is scorching, and the ground feels like it's filled with fury.
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But then, we think around sunrise the next day, there's this very eerie lull.
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It's been about 17 hours since Vesuvius first erupted, and the volcano seems to have stopped spewing destruction.
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People think maybe
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Maybe this nightmare is coming to an end.
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And just to remind you, pyroclastic flow, it's not lava, it's a much faster moving avalanche of superheated gas, ash, and rock fragments.
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And it is impossible to outrun.
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Despite the speed of the pyroclastic flows and the quick deaths that followed, the whole eruption event was actually drawn out for about seventeen hours.
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It's not the frozen in time image that Pompeii is known for.
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And it's not just Pompeii that experiences this disaster.
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There's lesser known towns dotting the area that are completely buried under this material, including hundreds of villas owned by the Roman elite.
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So to people outside of Pompeii, when they turned around and and visited, did they just look around and go, There's an entire city that's been wiped off the map?
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But soon enough, Pompeii just disappears off the map.
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And all of those ideas of it as a mysterious lost city, to some extent that's actually true.
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Time went on, and Pompeii lay buried under meters of ash and pumice until the late 16th century, when an architect by the name of Domenico Fontana was digging, and he noticed something.
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Uh, fair enough, I suppose.
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Actually, in the end, it was more than a century later, like the mid-1700s, when Pompeii gets the attention it deserves.
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Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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They were eventually excavated.
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