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'THE WHITE WHALE'

National Programme
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@ No. 13
A serial reading from Herman Melville's ' Moby Dick ' by Geoffrey Tandy
The Pequod is in the Indian Ocean, and Stubb has killed the first whale of the voyage. It is towed to the ship's side and made fast there. In this instalment you will hear how the carcass is dealt with. Melville's description of the operations involved would apply to most ships in the sperm-whale fishery in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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