Nigel Jones
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140 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
Nigel Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Didn't know where he was, had to go down to the level of the waves.
The waves were crashing away just a few feet under his aircraft.
He couldn't see, he was in cloud, he was in mist, he couldn't see where he was going, he was flying literally flying blind.
And it's quite amazing the publicity that he got.
Already crowds knew that he was coming and there were enormous crowds of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people at the Bourget Airport near Paris where he was going to land before he'd ever completed the flight.
started getting lavished with awards, he got the French Legendaire, the highest award that France can give.
And when he got back to America, President Coolidge gave him, I think it was the Congressional Medal of Honor and things like that.
And it helped that he was a tall, blond, blue eyed, very good looking young man.
Looked like a kid, always looked younger than his age, and he was only twenty two and he looked about seventeen.
He was extraordinary.
The amount of publicity he got, so he literally became the most famous man in the world, the most photographed man in the world, of course, and filmed man in the world.
She was a intellectual, wanted to become a writer, and she was the daughter of the newly appointed American ambassador to Mexico.
But she met Lindbergh and first of all she thought she fancied him.
She complained to her sister that he never read a book.
He wasn't an intellectual.
And she did read books.
She wrote Plato and Schopenhauer and so on and wanted to be an intellectual, wanted to be a writer.
But then of course she fell in love with him, they fell in love with each other, and very rapidly they uh got married.
One night the child was in his room in the house.
They had a nanny there who looked after them, but they were living there as a couple and he disappeared from this cot.
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