{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Nothing Great Is Easy","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69304179d6bc23eda246da43/e2142940-74ad-46b4-9c3f-0cdb25b3213c.jpg?height=200","description":"On 24 August 1875, Captain Matthew Webb dived from Admiralty Pier, Dover, into the cold grey English Channel. He was 27 years old, coated in porpoise fat, and carried nothing but determination and a support boat stocked with beef tea, brandy, and ale. Twenty-one hours and forty-five minutes later — after a jellyfish sting, a three-hour tidal reversal that pushed him backwards, gusts of wind, and at least two cups of ale handed over the gunwale — he crawled ashore near Calais and became the most famous man in the world. The Mayor of Dover declared that no one would ever do it again. He was wrong: the next person managed it 36 years later. Webb's story is about what happens when a human being decides to do something that everyone agrees is impossible — and what happens after, when the fame runs out and the next impossible thing beckons.","author_name":"Atween Studios"}