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

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• 00:10

  So fell Peru.

• 00:13

  We gave her greed, hunger and the cross.

• 00:17

  Three gifts for the civilized life.

• 00:20

  The family groups that sang on the terraces are gone.

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  In their place, slaves shuffled underground and they don't sing there.

• 00:28

  Peru is a silent country, frozen in avarice.

• 00:32

  And so fell Spain, gorged with gold, distended, now dying.

• 00:38

  And so fell you, General, my master, whom men called the son of his own deeds.

• 00:44

  I'm the only one left now of that company, landowner,

• 00:48

  slave owner, and forty years from any time of hope.

• 00:52

  There's no joy in that, or in anything now.

• 00:56

  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.

• 01:06

  And no pain,

• 01:08

  like losing it So that was old Martin the narrator in Peter Jeffers play The Royal Hunt of the Sun who was banished Dominic in our last episode It's so great to have him back on the show and he's his customary cheery self Everything's awful.

• 01:23

  Yeah, he said a brilliant time.

• 01:24

  He's like the Onceler at the end of the Lorax for dr.

• 01:28

  Seuss fans Yeah,

• 01:29

  he's responsible

• 01:30

  for ruining everything yes i mean that's what he basically says himself isn't it doesn't he in that uh quotation we've ruined everything we arrived we had a brilliant time we ruined everything for everybody and then we all died um and is that a fair summary pretty much yeah pretty much so this play which was we've used it a lot um i was actually in a production of it at school it was the first play i was ever in the first proper play i was ever who did you play please tell me how to help her no no no this is gonna really you're gonna really enjoy this i played Vicente de Valverde did you dr valverde yeah the deranged priest yeah i do enjoy that so just on the play the play is from in the 60s and it's very kind of anti-imperial and it's in its themes but its message which is basically you know the whole thing has been a complete nightmare it's charged with ambivalence and regret and horror what's happened to peru its message would have been very familiar to the people who wrote the first accounts of the conquest in the 16th century.

• 02:29

  Well, it ultimately comes from Bartolomé Las Casas, who we may be hearing from.

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