Marc Fennell
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2,016 appearances
19 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He begged and he borrowed to be there.
He hoodwinked people to get his car to be king.
When the race started, he was borrowing petrol from his competitors, and then suddenly he and his team.
Revealed by the locations where he was sending telegrams to newspapers from and he took
So we've got this situation where the chaotic Frenchman, unbeknownst to everybody, looks like he's leapfrogging over the pack because he's cheated.
Exactly.
You've also got the prince who has this incredible precision machine working around him.
We're coming close to the finishing line.
And and what's the public reaction coming into that movement?
So we're at the finishing line.
We're in Paris.
Put me out of my misery.
Who wins the race?
So this is kind of the important part, which is that there's something about this race that changes the way the world sees cars.
What is the thing that changes in the public perception of cars after this event?
This race goes down in history as a moment when the automobile, the car's potential and power, are finally put on the world stage.
That is author and cultural historian Cassia Sinclair there.
And she has a book called Race to the Future.
And it tells this incredible story of peeking to Paris in so much detail.
This episode was produced by Zoe Ferguson and Rebecca Metcalf.
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