This Sunday BBC radio 4 broadcast part 3 of The Mauritius Command and you will have a number of times to listen to it. :D

I blush to admit that though the music used in part 3 is ever so familiar to me, I cannot for the life of me think of the titles. Please help?

Thank you.

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The Mauritius Command on BBC radio 4 extra:

Listen to part 2, where (as the Beeb describes it) Jack needs subtlety and subterfuge to win over his fleet’s crews and subordinate captains.

Jack? Subtlety?
*shakes head*

This part 2 is as charming as part 1, to which you can also still listen on the same page.

:D

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Why not read Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti series in between the Aubreyad? Apart from describing murder, mayhem and corruption in Venice, Ms Leon writes about the everyday life of the Commissario and his family: wife Paola, son Raffi and 15-year-old daughter Chiara.

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Last night's Celebrity Mastermind had Michael Buerk answering questions on 'the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian' - it's on iPlayer (starting from about 07:00), but if you can't see that, the questions and possibly-invisible answers are below.

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Interesting article from the BBC here. It describes how Ascension Island was terraformed by Charles Darwin and the Royal Navy, resulting in a unique ecosystem of plants normally not found together. This seems like just the sort of project dear Stephen might have started, had he thought of it.

I was skimming my nice new copy of the Muster Book when I noticed that it said that Jack was 5 years senior to Hen as lieutenant (in comparison, Hen was made Post earlier - though I can't remember if he was a Commander or Post in M&C). This was pretty curious to me since, after all, Hen has more influence than Jack, and one of the chief ways this ( Read more... )

Calling AoS fans!

Chatham Historic Dockyard is the most complete Georgian/Victorian dockyard in the world, and is therefore of major interest to AoS fans the world over. It is in the running for World Heritage Site status.

For more information, and to support their bid, check this link

A generation or two after our beloved Aubrey and Maturin, but (I hope) still of interest!

Click for a link to the news story AND a song to download.

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"On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells."

Link also has a slide show.

NY Times link