Marc Fennell
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1,856 appearances
16 recordings
1 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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Uh he'd recently just resolved two diplomatic nightmares on the Canadian border, without, it has to be said, a single shot being fired.
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So yeah, he's the guy they need.
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It's not easy for him to get to San Juan Island because um the Great Pacifier was not in great shape.
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Yeah.
Six
weeks for the man to arrive.
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For the man to arrive.
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Uh during which time the British and the Americans are just standing off on the island.
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But when he does arrive, he gets to work.
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how did it end up going to the Americans?
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Well,
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In the original treaty, there's a very vague sentence that caused all these problems.
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It said the border would run through the middle of the channel.
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It's just that the treaty did not specify which channel, because there's the Harrow Strait on the west and there's the Rosario Strait on the east.
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In the end, the arbitrators just ruled that it was the Harrow Strait, which meant it went to the Americans.
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If only he'd called the Emperor of Germany after the pig would die, maybe we could have avoided all of this.
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So can I ask just like when we look back at this particularly weird chapter of history?
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You've got a standoff that involved warships, guns, thousands of men, apart from the shot that killed the poor pig.
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Was anyone hurt in the pig war?
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