649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6)

So fell Peru. We gave her greed, hunger, and the cross. Three gifts for the civilized life. The family groups that sang on the terraces are gone. In their place slaves shuffled underground and they don't sing there.

Peru is a silent country, frozen in avarice, and so fell Spain, gorged with gold, distended, now dying. And so fell you, general, my master, whom men called the son of his own deeds. I am the only one left now of that company. landowner, slave owner, and forty years from any time of hope. There's no joy in that, or in anything now.

But then there's no joy in the world could match for me what I had when I first went with you across the water to find the gold country, And no pain like losing it. So that was old Martin, the narrator in Peter Schaffer's play The Royal Hunt of the Sun, who was banished Dominic in our last episode. So great to have him back on the show, and he's his customary cheery self. Everything's awful.

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