{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a505d442b60482dd289ce38/6a511e19a410914b585a5008?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Charles XII: Shot in the Dark","description":"<p>Charles XII: the teenage warrior king who couldn't lose — until he lost everything. Gaz and Degsy tell it, and Degsy's mam Brenda is still here, mothering the memory of a 36-year-old who never came home.</p><p><br></p><p>Tonight's history (all true):</p><ul><li>Narva, 1700 — the fifteen-year-old king routs a Russian army of nearly forty thousand with eight thousand men, in a blizzard.</li><li>- Poltava, 1709 — he marches into Russia, Peter the Great burns everything, the army freezes, and the empire is broken in a single day.</li><li>- Five years hiding in the Ottoman Empire, a fortnight's ride home, and then a bullet through the head in a Norwegian trench in 1718, aged 36 — and to this day, nobody knows who fired it.</li></ul><p>...with two original punk tracks: \"Narva\" and \"Shot in the Dark\".</p><p><br></p><p>Contains strong language. An AI-generated production: voices and music made with AI, history fact-checked by hand.</p>","author_name":"Anders Bjarby"}