British History-8
'The Bold Buccaneers'
RHODA POWER
In another dramatic interlude, Miss Rhoda Power is to tell you more about Stuart times. Today's interlude is to deal with buccaneers, and more especially with one of the boldest of them all -Sir Henry Morgan.
According to tradition, his life was one big adventure from the start, for he is said to have been kidnapped as a boy at Bristol and to have been sold as a servant at Barbados. Then, as soon as he was free, to have found his way to Jamaica, where he joined the buccaneers.
You will hear how this fearless Welshman sacked the Spanish town of Panama ; how he was knighted by I Charles II, and made Lieut.-Governor of Jamaica. Not all buccaneers finished so respectably.
2.25 Interval
2.30 Dramatic Reading
Henry V, by William Shakespeare
2.50 Interval