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Having successfully faked his own death, George Lowther has somehow managed to slip away from history's eye and build a prosperous new life for himself in the Spanish colony of Panama. But when war breaks out between Britain and Spain, his true identity is revealed. Once again the old pirate is thrust back into the thick of the action — but this time in the service of King and Country!
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George Lowther and his crew receive a taste of their own medicine when they anchor up in what seems to be an uninhabited stretch of Honduran coastline. But the nightmare that unfolds is just the first of many disasters that beset the beleaguered captain. As his fortunes continue to spiral, he eventually finds himself out of luck and all alone… 
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Our final tale from Piracy's Golden Age begins in West Africa, 1721. George Lowther is a fiery young merchant officer serving in the Royal African Company. When he instigates a mutiny aboard a slave ship it sets the stage for one of the most unpredictable pirate stories ever. Along with his somewhat reluctant ally Captain John Massey, he sails under the Black Flag initially as a means of survival. However, when tensions inevitably strain between the co-captains, something has to give.
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In William Fly’s final week on Earth, he reflects on a life at sea and the course he’s charted to now face the hangman’s noose. But he’s not done fighting yet. In the bowels of a Boston prison, a battle is being fought. A battle between good and evil — right and wrong — Puritan preacher versus unrepentant pirate. It’s a battle to have the final word on Pirates of the Golden Age and how they’ll be remembered: moral tragedy or social revolution? It’s a battle which will be decided in an epic showdown on the gallows, in front of a roaring crowd.
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It’s 1726 and the end of the Golden Age of piracy may be at hand — but the terror that plagues the Atlantic is still a public obsession, and Boston is no exception. For two decades the firebrand cleric, Dr. Cotton Mather, has waged a desperate war to save these lost souls and to reclaim a city that is losing its religion — a one-man crusade to stem the flow of seafarers sailing under the black flag. But now he meets his match... With piracy in its death throes, one last villain is spewed out from the sea: the irredeemable, the impenitent, William Fly.
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This week we’re turning our attention away from the cutlass-wielding pirates of the seas, and toward some of the greatest detective minds in history. On this episode of Scotland Yard Confidential, a strange box washes ashore the banks of the Thames in 1879. Stashed inside are the dismembered remains of a woman — kicking off a gruesome case that will come to be known as the Barnes Mystery.
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