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1923
- The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
- Narrated by: Ned Boulting
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film featuring a stage of the Tour de France from 1923, he set about learning everything he could about it - taking him on an intriguing journey that encompasses travelogue, history and detective story.
In the autumn of 2020 Ned Boulting (ITV head cycling commentator and Tour de France obsessive) bought a length of Pathé news film from a London auction house. All he knew was it was film from the Tour de France, a long time ago. Once restored it became clear it was a short sequence of shots from stage 4 of the 1923 Tour de France. No longer than 2.5 minutes long, it featured half a dozen sequences, including a lone rider crossing a bridge.
Ned set about learning everything he could about the sequence – studying each frame, face and building – until he had squeezed the meaning from it. It sets him off in fascinating directions, encompassing travelogue, history, mystery story – to explain, to go deeper into this moment in time, captured on his little film.
Join him as he explores the history of cycling and France just five years after WWI – meeting characters like Henri Pélissier, who won the Tour that year but who would within the decade be shot dead by his lover using the same pistol with which his wife had killed herself. And Theophile Beeckman – the lone rider on the bridge.
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- stuart brazier
- 13-02-24
A lovely trip down a cycling rabbit hole
if u like bikes the TDF, France,history, or just the sound of Neds voice buy it!!! listen to this book on my long winter rides.....
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- Graham Holmes
- 01-08-23
history time and cycling woven together
Thank you for weaving history time and cycling all together in this fantastic book.
A delight to read as well as to listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-07-23
Brilliant story telling, so much more than just cycling
Brilliant story telling and so much more than just a cycling story - wide ranging and well researched. Listened in one sitting on a flight from Lima to London. Would be a great story for the next one man show
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- Matt
- 20-02-24
Great story
Detailed insight into a fascinating period of modern history via an unknown cyclist and a short piece of film.
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- Joel R.
- 27-06-23
Fascinating story beautifully told
Listened to the story, fascinated by the history and side stories on a journey from England to a Holland and back.
Really enjoyed the life Ned breathes so well in to what on the surface looks like a 2 min archived. Thoroughly entertained - would recommend to those in to their cycling or not!
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- Janet Quinn
- 21-01-24
Fascinating story
Fantastic story of a great cyclist who
Remains unknown beautifully and passionately told by Ned
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- Peter Tomkinson
- 27-06-23
Wonderful snapshot of place, culture and society of the interwar tdf
Just brilliant, tangentialy investigating and seeking out the wonderful richness of Europe in 1923.
Great.
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- k pius
- 30-06-23
Amazing book!
Mon Dieu, what a book... Mensieur Boulting has done something extraordinary! This is how writing of a cycling book should look like, full of passion. Absolute gem of a listen, filled with heroes, superheroes.
I love this book. It is a masterpiece!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-07-23
From a short clip of film so many interesting stories
By looking into the granular detail of the short piece of film bought at auction so many lives and stories are discovered. A fascinating insight into a period of cycling and history I knew little about.
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- Joe
- 18-07-23
Wow - that was unexpected
Thought I was buying a story of a historic Tour de France race but was given so so much more. Wonderful, Bravo Ned. Fabulous from star to finish-kudos all the way :)
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