Marc Fennell
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1,887 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They publish this article.
Actually, no, they publish a challenge amid what can only be described as a climate of uncertainty in the budding years of the twentieth century.
So you can imagine, this race, this challenge, is a point of national pride for the French.
And this
In this newspaper article, a proposal is made for a race driving from China to France.
So peaking is what we would call Beijing today.
And besides the nice alliteration of peaking to Paris, it does feel a bit arbitrary, like this idea of traveling from China to France.
But it turns out it wasn't as random as it sounds.
And so what is the route that the competitors take to get from Peking to Paris?
I mean, even today, with, you know, air conditioning and cruise control, this would be a very full-on trip.
What kind of responses does the paper get when they when they throw this gauntlet out in the world?
So the stakes are very high here for an entire industry.
But who will respond to the call?
Well, uh around two dozen people show interest, but only a handful of those actually ship their vehicles to China, where this race is supposed to begin.
We have five contestants, four Frenchmen, one of which is driving a Dutch vehicle called this Spiker, while another contestant is driving
Well, it's a very strange looking car.
I'm visualizing the the the car from the goodies.
And the fifth contestant is an Italian man, specifically an Italian aristocrat.
Okay, so we've got quite a collection of characters going on here.
Okay, so we know that it's had all kinds of different reactions in Europe.
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