Episodios

  • Our General

    Our General
    Oct 3 2025
    Welcome back to Powder to Parchment on WREV 760AM, where we bring you Revolutionary Talk straight from the heart of 1775. Today we turn our attention to Benedict Arnold, and not the man remembered for betrayal, but the soldier who was still a hero. On October 3, 1775, Arnold and more than a thousand men began their march north through the wilds of Maine, bound for Quebec. They carried bateaux that leaked, maps that lied, and provisions that would soon rot, yet they carried also the hopes of General Washington and the survival of the Revolution. Arnold had already seized Fort Ticonderoga, yet Congress treated him with suspicion and scorn. Washington, however, saw fire and trusted him with a bold gamble. If Quebec could be taken, Canada might join the American cause. This is the story of ambition, boldness, and the making of a Revolutionary hero.
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    20 m
  • An Expensive Education

    An Expensive Education
    Oct 3 2025
    College ain't what I expected it to be...
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    2 m
  • America's First Traitor

    America's First Traitor
    Oct 3 2025
    On October 3, 1775, at his Cambridge headquarters, George Washington gathered his leading officers around a table and laid out a single sheet of paper covered in characters that looked like the husks of an insect’s trail. The talk was quiet and direct. A senior official stood under suspicion, a ciphered message had been opened, and the implications were heavier than the room’s timbered ceiling. After weighing the circumstances, the council resolved to adjourn until morning and bring the physician himself to face the paper. The next day would supply the answers. That night supplied the dread.
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    2 m
  • 41 Cold War Sentinels - USS George Bancroft SSBN-643

    41 Cold War Sentinels - USS George Bancroft SSBN-643
    Oct 3 2025
    George Bancroft was one of the great figures of nineteenth-century America, a historian, diplomat, and the founder of the United States Naval Academy. More than a century later, the Navy honored him by giving his name to a vessel that represented the cutting edge of Cold War deterrence. USS George Bancroft (SSBN-643) was a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine, part of the legendary “41 for Freedom.” From 1966 until 1993 she carried out seventy deterrent patrols, armed first with Polaris, then Poseidon, and finally Trident missiles. Her mission was never to fire, but to wait in silence, ensuring that no adversary would dare launch a nuclear strike. In this episode we tell the story of the man who gave the Navy its Academy and the submarine that bore his name, together leaving a legacy of leadership, vigilance, and commitment to the defense of freedom.
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    6 m
  • Revolutionary Talk - We Need a Navy!

    Revolutionary Talk - We Need a Navy!
    Oct 2 2025
    Welcome back to Powder to Parchment on WREV 760AM, Norwich’s home for Revolutionary Talk. Yesterday we looked at Washington’s grim reality outside Boston — nine shots apiece and a bluff that might break at any moment. Today, October 2, 1775, we turn to Philadelphia, where the Continental Congress takes up an idea as bold as it is dangerous: creating a navy. John Adams rises and declares, “Without a navy we cannot do much.” His words cut through the dust and hesitation of the chamber. Yet the room divides. Adams sees survival in schooners and privateers; John Dickinson sees danger in expense and provocation. Boldness against caution, liberty against reconciliation. Meanwhile, across the ocean, King George drafts his speech branding us rebels and his ministers hire Hessians to finish the job. So which will it be, Norwich? Ships or speeches? Schooners or supplication? Stay tuned — Revolutionary Talk begins now.
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    27 m
  • The Sorcerer Strikes

    The Sorcerer Strikes
    Oct 2 2025
    In the autumn of 1944, the submarine USS Aspro slipped out of Fremantle and into the vast expanse of the South China Sea. This was her fifth war patrol, a mission that would test the nerves of her crew and the steel of the boat against Japan’s desperate efforts to keep its sea lanes open. For weeks the men endured the grind of patrol life, stalking convoys, dodging aircraft, and bracing against the thundering shocks of depth charges. The climax came on October 2, 1944, when Aspro closed in on a Japanese tanker hugging the coastline. With torpedoes running true and enemy aircraft swooping low, the crew fought their way through one of the most dangerous encounters of their patrol. Tonight we tell the story of Aspro’s fifth war patrol, the men who carried it out, and the day when courage and precision made all the difference.
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    7 m
  • The Nottngham Cheese Riot

    The Nottngham Cheese Riot
    Oct 2 2025
    On October 2, 1766, Nottingham’s famous Goose Fair turned from lively market to full-blown riot, and the cause was cheese. Prices had doubled, merchants were buying up entire wagonloads to haul away, and the townsfolk decided they would not stand for it. What followed was chaos, with stalls overturned, cheeses seized, and wheels rolled through the streets like weapons. The mayor, Robie Swann, tried to stop it and ended up sprawled on the cobblestones after being knocked flat by a rolling cheese. The humor of the scene hides the desperation that drove it. Soldiers were called in, shots were fired, and a farmer named William Eggleston lost his life. Nottingham’s riot was part of a national wave of food protests, born from hunger and a demand for justice. In this episode we explore how a fairground skirmish over cheese revealed the fierce struggle of ordinary people to survive.
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    2 m
  • 2.5 Million Years

    2.5 Million Years
    Oct 2 2025
    After 2.5 Million yers, I missed it
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    2 m