William de Rumpel
speaker
259 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jun
William de Rumpel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Moreover, under a dictatorship, how can we speak of liberty?
On this then, let us agree.
Pity the nation that obeys one man as we pity the man who holds all power.
Well, that's not a complete sort of renunciation of dictatorship, is it?
No.
I don't pity him at all who wields power.
Well, this is the story, I think, which is coming up now.
You're going to be talking about Admiral José Pudencio Padilla.
who is this Afro-Columbian military hero who he executes.
And this, you know, this is not him showing himself at his best at all.
This is him showing himself in very racist colors and why this guy gets executed.
Tell us about it.
It's not a good story.
You sent me a very nice picture of him with muslin chops, or what the British at this period called mulberries.
We haven't had any naval battles in this pod, but presumably there would be a lot of sort of action with sort of homeblower stuff with ships firing off broadsides and all the rest of it.
And how does he fall out with Bolivar?
Why does he get on Bolivar's wrong side?
Because up to now, just because he's a hero?
Or what does he do?
And this is a big deal in today, isn't it?
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