Hotels with History | Copacabana Palace, Rio De Janeiro

Hello, I'm head of programming Connor Boyle. Today we're whisking you away with a hand-picked episode of Armchair Escapism. After a standout first season, Hotels with History is back. Produced by Intelligence Squared in partnership with Perone International, this new season sees hosts Jules Perone and Richard E. Grant travel further than ever to some of the world's most

Storied hotels. This season you can stroll along white sand to the Copacabana Palace, watch the 1918 German Revolution unfold from the windows of Berlin's Hotel Adlon, and of course enjoy Richard's inimitable impersonations of Marlena Dietrich. In each episode, Richard and Jules check in to a different hotel, uncovering the unforgettable moments that took place within its walls and beyond its grounds, exploring how the tides of history transformed entire regions. into the luxury destinations we know today. Now over to Jules and Richard for hotels with history.

There is a phrase, it comes from the Quechua people of the High Andes, a language spoken long before Portuguese sailors ever rounded the Cape, long before anyone thought to build anything on this particular curve of the South American coast. The phrase is Copa Caguana. It is said to mean the luminous place, the illuminated place, the place with a view. Somehow that name travelled, down from the mountains, across the continent, through centuries of collision and conquest and reinvention. Rio de Janeiro, the river of January, named by sailors who arrived in January 1502, mistook this vast

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