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Essequibo River

Essequibo River

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Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Essequibo River".

Sep 14, 2026

Laura BinghamGUEST
9:37
There was, they're almost like laughable in, they're serious in the moment, but kind of laughable after that.
Laura BinghamGUEST
9:46
So they were in the Essequibo.
Laura BinghamGUEST
9:48
There was one morning that I woke up and I could just hear everyone going,
Stephen KellyHOST
9:51
Jaguar, Jaguar.

9 MINS LATER

Stephen KellyHOST
19:16
my
Laura BinghamGUEST
19:16
mentality was pushed to a limit.
Laura BinghamGUEST
19:18
But, and then the Essequibo, I remember having my period and standing on a rock and telling everyone to leave me there to die.
Laura BinghamGUEST
19:28
which was probably slightly dramatic.
speaker_2NARRATOR
70:40
There is naturally little chance to do so, and we don't know how to use it when it comes.
speaker_2NARRATOR
70:46
I remember that when a chance did come in connection with the great Venezuela dispute over the ownership of the jungles and mudflats of British Guiana, the American papers at once inserted headings, Where is the Essequibo River? That spoiled the whole thing.
speaker_2NARRATOR
71:03
If you admit that you don't know where a place is, then the bottom is knocked out of all discussion.
speaker_2NARRATOR
71:08
But if you pretend that you do, then you are all right.
Stephen FevrierHOST
1:49
Painting a picture with words alone for millions who will never see the pitch, and few have practiced it longer or with greater devotion than today's guest.
Stephen FevrierHOST
2:03
His story begins in Pomeroon, Essequibo, deep in Guyana's interior.
Stephen FevrierHOST
2:10
The fifth of nine children of a farmer, a boy who dreamed of the microphone, though a stammer stood in his way.
Stephen FevrierHOST
2:20
He taught himself to breathe through the starts of words and sentences, and went on to call the game for nearly 60 years, 152 test matches, and five World Cups, building the very game he animated with his words as an administrator in Guyana and across the OECS.

9 MINS LATER

Stephen FevrierHOST
11:54
Mm.
Joseph Reds PerreiraGUEST
11:56
40 people in the bus.
Joseph Reds PerreiraGUEST
11:58
And go to Adventure, we catch the steamer, and we cross the Essequibo River.
Joseph Reds PerreiraGUEST
12:03
The mouth is 20 miles wide.
Brian HallGUEST
11:40
For the transportation of the mission workers, it depends on where you're going as to what mode of transportation you use.
Brian HallGUEST
11:47
The last trip I was across the Essequibo River, which is like 20 miles across at the mouth, and we used the large ferry.
Brian HallGUEST
11:54
because it holds all of your stuff and a couple of vans and things like that.
Brian HallGUEST
11:59
Sometimes you go across a ferry, and it's a pontoon, and you pull yourself across.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
15:36
Part 1 comprises 15 maps all printed on the same base.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
15:41
This base map was specially compiled and engraved for the Commission and is designed to represent the latest and best information as to the natural features of the Orinoco-Essequibo region.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
15:52
It is based chiefly on the so-called Great Map of the Colony, dated 1875, and published by E. Stanford of London in 1877.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
16:02
Various other maps were also made use of in its compilation.

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