Tunis
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Sep 21, 2026
Leanne YaoVOICE_ACTOR
Oh, but what is the name of the town I saw them in?
Larry WilsonVOICE_ACTOR
Tunis.
Larry WilsonVOICE_ACTOR
I think he will keep me till night.
Larry WilsonVOICE_ACTOR
He tells me it is useless to repeat that name so often, and I have already mentioned it a dozen times.
Laura AtkinsonNARRATOR
15.
Laura AtkinsonNARRATOR
The Hummingbird A rout of evanescence with a revolving wheel, a resonance of emerald, a rush of cockaniel, and every blossom on the bush adjusts its tumbled head, the mail from Tunis, probably, an easy morning's ride.
Laura AtkinsonNARRATOR
16.
Laura AtkinsonNARRATOR
Secrets.
Lara SheehiGUEST
He has this beautiful line and I'm paraphrasing here, but he says, you know, the job of the clinician is to remove all the incarcerative conditions that could potentially afflict people and make them suffer psychologically, meaning anything in the family, in society and in our clinics.
Lara SheehiGUEST
So by the time he's in Tunis, he's experimenting with day clinics.
Lara SheehiGUEST
He's experimenting with how do I have a patient-centered practice where people and their families decide about what's important for their care.
Lara SheehiGUEST
Not me, just because I have a, you know, a lab coat on.
Ross OC JenningsGUEST
And that made it real in my mind and sort of in other people's minds.
Ross OC JenningsGUEST
So this British photographer, a week later on my trip, connects with me again and offers to take photos of me in Sidi Bou Said, which is a coastal... neighborhood or town next to tunis which is everyone says it looks a bit like santorini very greek white buildings blue roofs very pretty he takes photos of me when i'm there and then i link up with mr el arbi at his football club four or five days later and i'm playing the bagpipes at their annual gm in the south of tunisia it was so freaking random and
Matt BowlesHOST
That is amazing.
Matt BowlesHOST
I understand that on that Tunisia trip, you also had a run-in with the police.
Gerardo Muñoz-LorenteGUEST
And they are also entering Nigeria, the South African Republic, extending to the south.
Gerardo Muñoz-LorenteGUEST
The problem is when they try to go back, because they have already been, to the north, to Egypt, to Tunis, to Morocco, to Algeria.
Gerardo Muñoz-LorenteGUEST
That's what they want to do.
Gerardo Muñoz-LorenteGUEST
The other day I read a piece of news that Isis, from the Sahel, appointed a, what do they call him, a caliph, I think it's a caliph, no, not a caliph, a representative of Isis, a representative of Isis in Madrid, who already did it previously in Burkina Faso, in the south.
A. RodrigoNARRATOR
The elephants and cavalry, as soon as they reached level ground, effected their retreat in safety, and the Romans, after pursuing the infantry for a short distance and destroying the camp, henceforth overran and plundered the country and its towns unmolested.
A. RodrigoNARRATOR
Having made themselves masters of the town called Tunis, which was a suitable base for these raids, and also well situated for operations against the capital and its immediate environs, they established themselves there.
A. RodrigoNARRATOR
End of chapter 30 Chapter 31 The Carthaginians, having thus been twice defeated, shortly before at sea and now on land, in both cases owing to no lack of bravery in their troops, but owing to the incompetence of their commanders, were now in a thoroughly difficult position.
A. RodrigoNARRATOR
For, in addition to the misfortunes I have mentioned, the Numidians, attacking them at the same time as the Romans, inflicted not less but even more damage on the country than the latter.
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A. RodrigoNARRATOR
The consequence was that everything was in a state of uncertainty, mistrust, and confusion.
A. RodrigoNARRATOR
For one thing, they thought the Carthaginians had acted purposely in not communicating with them through the generals, who were acquainted with their performances in Sicily and who had made them the promises of bounties, but in sending one who had not been present on any of those occasions.
A. RodrigoNARRATOR
At length, then, refusing to treat with Hanno, thoroughly distrusting their divisional officers, and highly indignant with the Carthaginians, they marched on the capital and encamped at a distance of about 120 stadia from Carthage at the place called Tunis.
A. RodrigoNARRATOR
They were more than 20,000 in number.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
With sixty thousand men, Louis IX, accompanied by the counts of Flanders, Brittany, Champagne, and other barons, left France to return to it no more.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
A storm drove the fleet to Sardinia, and there it was decided that the crusaders should in the first instance go to Tunis.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Charles of Anjou, the sovereign of Sicily, was anxious to maintain the rights of Christendom by exacting a tribute paid formerly to his predecessors.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The devout Louis remembered, it is said, the messages from which the king of Tunis had expressed his wish to embrace Christianity, and thought that the presence of a large army would give him courage to make open confession of the true faith.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In 1270 the army landed and had encamped, we are told, on the site of Carthage, when a plague broke out and amongst its crowd of victims struck the king.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
His whole life had been a prayer.
MartinHOST
Tell me about Nadia.
JuliaHOST
Nadia is an accountant from Tunis, in Tunisia, and she has been in Manchester for a year.
JuliaHOST
Very good English, very careful, very polite.
MartinHOST
And?
speaker_15NARRATOR
in a fourth attack on tripoli by the gallant preville a sad accident occurred it was determined to blow up the cruisers in the harbor by a floating mine or huge torpedo the intrepid was laden with a hundred barrels of gunpowder over which were laid shot shell and irregular pieces of iron in charge of captain somers she was towed into the harbor on a very dark night september fourth eighteen o four when all eyes were strained to observe the result suddenly a fierce and lurid light shot up from the dark bosom of the waters like a volcanic fire and was instantly followed by an explosion that shook earth and air for miles around flaming fragments rose and fell and then all was profound darkness again somers and his companions were never heard of they probably perished by the premature explosion of the mine soon after this preble who had done excellent service in the mediterranean was relieved by the arrival of commodore baron prepared to carry on the war with Tripoli vigorously, but it was ended by treaty early the next year.
speaker_15NARRATOR
The ruler of Tunis was yet insolent, but the appearance of an American squadron of thirteen vessels before his capital soon so humbled him that he sued for peace and made a treaty.
speaker_15NARRATOR
A small American naval force was kept in the Mediterranean, and for several years the Barbary powers kept their hands off American commerce.
speaker_15NARRATOR
At the close of the war of 1812-15, the Day of Algiers, believing the British Navy had utterly destroyed that of the United States, sent out his corsairs to depredate on our commerce.
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