3. Boar's Thrust

3. Boar's Thrust

From The Ballad Of Anne & Mary by Long Cat Media

May 13, 2021 · 34 min · Season 1 · Episode 3

About this episode

Anne Bonny's journey continues as she navigates her new life among pirates and confronts challenges with her crew.

Previously: Anne’s story continues with her arrival at Nassau, and her discovery that her new husband John Bonny is a government informant. She promptly leaves him, and enlists with Captain “Calico” Jack Rackham, who, she is amazed to discover, allows women in his crew. Meanwhile, Nathaniel Mist’s deal with pirate hunter Jonathan Barnet grows murkier, as Barnet insists Mist press the pirates into revealing the whereabouts of their buried treasure. Anne then tells Mist of how they captured an English ship, aboard which the soldier “Mark” Read was a passenger. Read outs the ship’s captain as a cruel tyrant, and asks to join the crew of the Revenge, along with young cabin boy Bob. But Mist is most surprised to learn that among Rackham's crew was none other than one Jonathan Barnet... In this episode: on the Revenge, the frosty-but-curious relationship between Anne & Read comes to a head as they battle it out in a fiery sparring match, Mist begins to reap the consequences of printing seditious letters in his newspaper, and Barnet incites a mutiny on the Revenge... Featuring Christina Bianco as Anne Bonny, Sooz Kempner as Mary Read, Karl Queensborough as Nathaniel Mist, Le Gateau…

People in this episode

Hosts: Long Cat Media, Nathaniel Mist

Guests: Anne Bonny, Mary Read

Topics covered

  • piracy
  • mutiny
  • female empowerment
  • treasure hunting
  • conflict

Keywords

  • Anne Bonny
  • Mary Read
  • Calico Jack
  • pirate crew
  • mutiny
  • treasure
  • seditious letters

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