The Man Who Would Be King
Short story by Rudyard KiplingWikipedia
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Oct 9, 2026
Rod PyleHOST
A guy named James A. Ross wrote a series called Radiation Angels, which was, uh, kind of they're, they're like quasi-military mercenary troubleshooters that go down and take care of problems for people on planets.
Rod PyleHOST
And a fun one by a guy named Craig Deluy, who I've corresponded with quite a bit, called The Great Planet Robbery, which is basically The Man Who Would Be King set in the future, where they're trying to take over a planet instead of just a little piece of, of the, the Mid East.
Rod PyleHOST
To you.
Tariq MalikHOST
Yeah.
Rod PyleHOST
A guy named James A. Ross wrote a series called Radiation Angels, which was, uh, kind of they're, they're like quasi-military mercenary troubleshooters that go down and take care of problems for people on planets.
Rod PyleHOST
And a fun one by a guy named Craig Deluy, who I've corresponded with quite a bit, called The Great Planet Robbery, which is basically The Man Who Would Be King set in the future, where they're trying to take over a planet instead of just a little piece of the, the, the Mideast.
Rod PyleHOST
To you.
Tariq MalikHOST
Yeah.
speaker_0NARRATOR
CBS and its affiliated stations present Escape.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Tonight, we escape with Rudyard Kipling and the two gentle scoundrels he created in his immortal story, The Man Who Would Be King.
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The time, sometime before yesterday.
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The place, the north of India.
26 MINS LATER
Herbert RawlinsonVOICE_ACTOR
He was only hours away from his death.
Herbert RawlinsonVOICE_ACTOR
I sat there and stared at the bundle he had left lying on my desk, stared as the pale shafts of dawn struck fire in the red beard, stared at the golden crown sitting too large and heavy upon the wrinkled, mummified head of Daniel Drabbit.
Herbert RawlinsonVOICE_ACTOR
the man who would be king.
speaker_9NARRATOR
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson.
Herbert RawlinsonNARRATOR
CBS and its affiliated stations present Escape.
Herbert RawlinsonNARRATOR
[upbeat music] Tonight, we escape with Rudyard Kipling and the two gentle scoundrels he created in his immortal story, The Man Who Would Be King.
Herbert RawlinsonNARRATOR
The time, some time before yesterday.
Herbert RawlinsonNARRATOR
The place, the north of India.
26 MINS LATER
Herbert RawlinsonNARRATOR
I sat there and stared at the bundle he had left lying on my desk.
Herbert RawlinsonNARRATOR
Stared as the pale shafts of dawn struck fire in the red beard.
Herbert RawlinsonNARRATOR
Stared at the golden crown, sitting too large and heavy upon the wrinkled, mummified head of Daniel Dravot, the man who would be king.
speaker_10NARRATOR
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson.
Adam RovnerGUEST
I think that's an interesting point.
Adam RovnerGUEST
Uh, we see some of this in, and this relates to the title, in Rudyard Kipling's great short story, which was later made into a really good movie, uh, The Man Who Would Be King, and that's where I borrowed the title from.
Adam RovnerGUEST
Uh, and in that story, which is really a, a, a story about imperial overreach and, uh, hubris, these two guys wanna conquer a kingdom, and they wanna do so with firepower and capitalism, and they end up destroying themselves because of, uh, their, uh, sexual, uh, conquests.
Adam RovnerGUEST
So, uh, Isaacs didn't end up destroying himself that way, but I think it's an interesting connection there.
David GassawayPANELIST
You haven't read your Kipling, obviously.
David GassawayPANELIST
There's a novel called The Man Who Would Be King about adventurers like yourselves.
David GassawayPANELIST
Well, I guess all we need from you is the location of the temple.
David GassawayPANELIST
Uh, and in return, I think we can guarantee you passage out of India to a location of your choice.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
I mean, he was, as you've probably gathered, fairly bonkers.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
But he was an extraordinary figure and he was the model for a Rudyard Kipling story called The Man Who Would Be King, which was then made into a wonderful film with Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
But that, believe it or not, that story of a kind of Western wanting to become a king of Afghanistan.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
is actually based in truth.