646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3)
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Atahualpa speaks. Atahualpa needs. Atawalpa commands. Bring him gold from the palaces, from the temples, from all buildings in the great places. From walls of pleasure and roofs of omen, from floors of feasting and ceilings of death.
Bring him the gold of Quito and Pachamaca Kakakak. Bring him the gold of Cusco and Coricancha. Bring him the gold of Vilcanota. Bring him the gold of Kolai, of Amarias and Arakipa. Bring him the gold of the Chemu.
Put up a mountain of gold, and free your son from his prison of clouds. So that was Christopher Plumber, playing Atahualpa, Emperor of the Incas, in Peter Chafford's play The Royal Hunt of the Sun, which we've been hearing a lot of in this series, and Atahualpa, in that scene, is summoning his people to one of the most memorable endeavours in the whole of world history. And it's the kind of scene that maybe as a child you have a book of world history and you read about it and you think, wow, that's mad, that couldn't possibly have happened. And that is exactly what happened to me.
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