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Datchet

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Search complete. 43 mentions across 9 episodes found for "Datchet".

Sep 13, 2026

PJ LandauNARRATOR
210:12
The king happily relieved him from this intolerable waste.
PJ LandauNARRATOR
210:17
He offered Herschel a salary of two hundred pounds a year if he would come and live at Datchet and devote himself entirely to astronomical observations.
PJ LandauNARRATOR
210:29
It was by no means a munificent sum for a king to offer for such labor, but Herschel gladly accepted it, as it would enable him to give up the interruption of teaching and spend all his time on his beloved astronomy.
PJ LandauNARRATOR
210:45
His Bath friend, Sir William Watson, exclaimed when he heard of it, "Never bought monarch honor so cheap." Herschel was forty-three when he removed to Datchet, and from that day forth, he lived almost entirely in his observatory, wholly given up to his astronomical pursuits.
PJ LandauNARRATOR
211:07
Even when he had to go to London to read his papers before the Royal Society, he chose a moonlit night when the stars would be mostly invisible, so that it might not interfere with his regular labors.
PJ LandauNARRATOR
211:23
Poor Carolina was horrified at the house at Datchet, which seemed terribly desolate and poor, even to her modest German ideas.
PJ LandauNARRATOR
211:33
But William declared his willingness to live permanently and cheerfully upon eggs and bacon, now that he was at last free to do nothing on earth but observe the heavens.
PJ LandauNARRATOR
211:45
Night after night, he and Carolina worked together at their silent task, he noting the small features with his big telescope, she sweeping for comets with a smaller glass or finder.
speaker_19NARRATOR
259:15
After you pass Old Windsor, the river is somewhat uninteresting, and does not become itself again until you are nearing Boveney.
speaker_19NARRATOR
259:24
George and I towed up past the home park which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge, and as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, and when we landed at Datchet at ten o'clock at night and wanted to go to bed.
speaker_19NARRATOR
259:42
I answered that I did remember it.
speaker_19NARRATOR
259:43
It will be some time before I forget it.
speaker_19NARRATOR
259:46
It was the Saturday night before the August bank holiday.
speaker_19NARRATOR
259:49
We were tired and hungry, we same three.
speaker_19NARRATOR
259:52
Then we got to Datchet.
speaker_19NARRATOR
259:53
We took out the hamper, the two bags, the rugs and coats, and such like things, and started off to look for diggings.
SoniaNARRATOR
361:35
He repeated his inquiry.
SoniaNARRATOR
361:37
"My friend, could you tell me just one thing?" "If it is in my power?" "Could you tell me which is the Duchess of Datchet?" "The Duchess of Datchet." Ivor Dekker smiled outright.
SoniaNARRATOR
361:52
The idea of there being any possible association between that oily Houndsditch Hebrew and the latest and brightest queen of the London season, the bride of but a month or two, struck him as too ludicrous.
SoniaNARRATOR
362:06
Mr. Dekker was possessed of that rare attribute, a sense of humor.
SoniaNARRATOR
363:03
The old girl with the moustache." Mr.
SoniaNARRATOR
363:06
Dekker's smile almost expanded into a grin.
SoniaNARRATOR
363:10
"That is the Duchess of Datchet." Without a word of thanks, Mr.
SoniaNARRATOR
363:15
Pfungst strode off.
speaker_10NARRATOR
224:38
After you pass Old Windsor, the river is somewhat uninteresting, and does not become itself again until you are nearing Boveney.
speaker_10NARRATOR
224:47
George and I towed up past the home park which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge, and as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, and when we landed at Datchet at ten o'clock at night and wanted to go to bed.
speaker_10NARRATOR
225:04
I answered that I did remember it.
speaker_10NARRATOR
225:06
It will be some time before I forget it.
speaker_10NARRATOR
225:08
It was the Saturday night before the August bank holiday.
speaker_10NARRATOR
225:11
We were tired and hungry, we same three.
speaker_10NARRATOR
225:14
Then we got to Datchet.
speaker_10NARRATOR
225:15
We took out the hamper, the two bags, the rugs and coats, and such like things, and started off to look for diggings.
speaker_17NARRATOR
264:25
After you pass Old Windsor, the river is somewhat uninteresting, and does not become itself again until you are nearing Boveney.
speaker_17NARRATOR
264:34
George and I towed up past the home park which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge, and as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, when we landed at Datchet at ten o'clock at night and wanted to go to bed.
speaker_17NARRATOR
264:51
I answered that I did remember it.
speaker_17NARRATOR
264:53
It will be some time before I forget it.
speaker_17NARRATOR
264:58
We were tired and hungry.
speaker_17NARRATOR
265:00
We same three.
speaker_17NARRATOR
265:01
Then we got to Datchet.
speaker_17NARRATOR
265:02
We took out the hamper, the two bags, the rugs and coats, and such like things, and started off to look for diggings.
Josh AvesteHOST
33:02
Then in 2002, he was sentenced to four years in prison for three separate sexual assault offenses against a young girl.
Josh AvesteHOST
33:11
In 2009, he plead guilty again to assaulting a woman, this time in Datchet, Berkshire, resulting in a prison sentence of four more years and 10 months.
Josh AvesteHOST
33:23
And then in 2018, he assaulted another woman, this time in Milton Keynes.
Josh AvesteHOST
33:30
For this crime, he was only given 200 hours of community service and received no custodial sentence.
speaker_21NARRATOR
252:36
George and I towed up past the home park, which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge.
speaker_21NARRATOR
252:43
And as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, when we landed at Datchet at 10 o'clock at night and wanted to go to bed.
speaker_21NARRATOR
252:53
I answered that I did remember it.
speaker_21NARRATOR
252:55
It will be some time before I forget it.
speaker_21NARRATOR
252:58
It was the Saturday night before the August bank holiday.
speaker_21NARRATOR
253:01
We were tired and hungry, we same three.
speaker_21NARRATOR
253:04
Then we got to Datchet.
speaker_21NARRATOR
253:05
We took out the hamper, the two bags, the rugs and coats and such like things, and started off to look for diggings.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
15:00
Poor Alice forgot all propriety when once she was towed well out into the midstream.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
15:07
There she gave way and allowed the echoes of Datchet and Lallam to echo with her sobs, for she had been awfully hard hit.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
15:16
Once indeed, Everett remembered, but with no pleasure sense of a lover's guerdon gained, she had leaned forward in the boat with the abandon of despair and kissed her patient confidant.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
15:29
It was the only woman's kiss Everard had ever received in his life, and it had tasted of salt tears.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
14:28
Poor Alice forgot all propriety when once she was towed well out into the midstream.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
14:35
There she gave way and allowed the echoes of Datchet and Lallham to echo with her sobs, for she had been awfully hard hit.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
14:44
Once indeed, Everett remembered, but with no pleasure sense of a lover's guerdon gained, she had leaned forward in the boat with the abandon of despair and kissed her patient confidant.
Lisa ReichertNARRATOR
14:57
It was the only woman's kiss Everard had ever received in his life, and it had tasted of salt tears.

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